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21 Questions for Friends

Friendship questions for your closest people

Friendship questions work best when they mix nostalgia with honesty: the story you both tell, the thing you forgave a long time ago, the adventure still on the list. Bring these to the next hangout.

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Question #1

What is your most embarrassing moment with me?

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#1
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What is your most embarrassing moment with me?

Follow-ups: Do you still think about it? • What did you learn?
#2
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What is your favorite memory of our friendship?

Follow-ups: Why does it stand out? • Do you want to recreate it?
#3
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What is something I do that annoys you?

Follow-ups: Should I change it? • How long has it bothered you?
#4
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What is your favorite thing about our friendship?

Follow-ups: How did we develop it? • What makes us work?
#5
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What is something you wish we did more often?

Follow-ups: Why is it important? • When can we do it?
#6
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What is your funniest story about us?

Follow-ups: Do others know about it? • Should we tell more people?
#7
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What is something I have helped you with?

Follow-ups: How did it help? • What did it mean to you?
#8
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What is a secret we share?

Follow-ups: Should we keep it forever? • Who else knows?
#9
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What is something you have always wanted to tell me?

Follow-ups: Why have you not said it? • How do you feel now?
#10
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What adventure should we go on together?

Follow-ups: When should we go? • What should we do there?
#11
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When did you first realize we would be good friends?

Follow-ups: What made you think that? • Were you right?
#12
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What is something you admire about the people in this group?

Follow-ups: Have you always felt that way? • Has it influenced you?
#13
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What is your favorite inside joke we have?

Follow-ups: How did it start? • Should we explain it to others?
#14
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What is a challenge you think we should do together?

Follow-ups: Why that one? • When should we start?
#15
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If we could switch lives for a day, what would you do?

Follow-ups: What would you want to experience? • What would surprise you?
#16
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What is something you have never told anyone else?

Follow-ups: Why me? • How long have you held onto it?
#17
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What is a tradition you want us to start?

Follow-ups: Why that one? • When should we begin?
#18
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What do you think is unique about our friendship?

Follow-ups: How did we develop that? • Do you have it with others?
#19
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What is the first thing you thought when you met me?

Follow-ups: How wrong were you? • Did I guess it?
#20
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What is one thing you think we both pretend to like?

Follow-ups: Why do we pretend? • Should we stop?
#21
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What is the most trouble we have ever gotten into?

Follow-ups: Who started it? • Did we get caught?
#22
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What is one thing you would do for me at 3 a.m. without asking why?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Have you done it yet?
#23
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What is one thing you wish I would ask you for help with?

Follow-ups: Why that? • When do we start?
#24
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What is the best road trip or outing we have ever taken?

Follow-ups: Why was it the best? • Where to next?
#25
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What is one thing you think we would be terrible at doing together?

Follow-ups: Why terrible? • Should we try it anyway?
#26
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What is one thing you think we would be unstoppable at together?

Follow-ups: Why unstoppable? • When do we start?
#27
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What is the hardest we have ever laughed together?

Follow-ups: What was so funny? • Can we recreate it?
#28
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What is one thing you miss about how things used to be?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Could we bring it back?
#29
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What is one thing you are excited about for our future?

Follow-ups: Why that? • When does it happen?
#30
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What is one thing you would tell our younger selves about us?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Would they believe it?
#31
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What is the most supportive thing I have ever done for you?

Follow-ups: Why did it land? • Did I know it mattered?
#32
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What is the most supportive thing you have ever done for me?

Follow-ups: Why did you do it? • Did I thank you enough?
#33
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What is one thing you think keeps our friendship strong?

Follow-ups: Why that? • How do we protect it?
#34
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What is one thing that almost ended our friendship?

Follow-ups: What happened? • How did we survive it?
#35
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What is one thing you forgave me for a long time ago?

Follow-ups: Why keep it quiet? • Are we fully past it?
#36
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What is one thing you hope I forgave you for?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Should we talk about it?
#37
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What is the weirdest thing we both believe?

Follow-ups: Where did it come from? • Are we right?
#38
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What is one opinion we will never agree on?

Follow-ups: Why the divide? • Do we still argue it?
#39
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What is one thing you copied from me?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Do I get credit?
#40
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What is one thing I copied from you?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Is it a compliment?
#41
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What is the best gift we have ever exchanged?

Follow-ups: Why did it land? • Who gave it?
#42
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What is one thing you want to do together before we are old?

Follow-ups: Why that? • When do we book it?
#43
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What is one thing you want to do together this year?

Follow-ups: Why this year? • What is the plan?
#44
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What is the most embarrassing thing we both witnessed together?

Follow-ups: Who saw us? • Do we still cringe?
#45
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What is one secret you have kept for me?

Follow-ups: Why was it hard? • Can it come out now?
#46
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What is one thing you know about me that no one else does?

Follow-ups: Why me? • Will it stay secret?
#47
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What is one thing I know about you that no one else does?

Follow-ups: Why trust me? • Does it weigh on you?
#48
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What is the best advice you have ever given me?

Follow-ups: Why did you say it? • Did I take it?
#49
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What is the best advice I have ever given you?

Follow-ups: Why did it land? • Did you use it?
#50
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What is one thing you think I underestimate about myself?

Follow-ups: Why do I miss it? • How can you remind me?
#51
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What is one thing you think you underestimate about yourself?

Follow-ups: Why do you miss it? • How can I remind you?
#52
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What is the most out-of-character thing you have ever seen me do?

Follow-ups: What happened? • Did I surprise myself?
#53
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What is the most out-of-character thing I have seen you do?

Follow-ups: What happened? • Would you do it again?
#54
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What is one thing you are proud of me for?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Do I know you feel that?
#55
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What is one thing you want me to be proud of you for?

Follow-ups: Why that? • How can I help?
#56
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What is one thing you think our friend group gets wrong about us?

Follow-ups: Why the misread? • Do we correct them?
#57
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What is the funniest misunderstanding we have ever had?

Follow-ups: What happened? • How long did it last?
#58
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What is one thing you want to apologize for?

Follow-ups: Why now? • How can I make it easy?
#59
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What is one thing you want an apology for?

Follow-ups: Why have you held it? • What would fix it?
#60
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What is the most generous thing you have ever seen me do?

Follow-ups: Why did it stick? • Did I know you saw?
#61
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What is one thing you want to plan as a surprise for me?

Follow-ups: Why that? • When is it?
#62
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What is one tradition from our friendship you want to keep forever?

Follow-ups: Why that one? • When do we do it next?
#63
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What is one inside joke you want to retire?

Follow-ups: Why retire it? • What replaces it?
#64
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What is the best compliment I have ever given you?

Follow-ups: Why did it land? • Do you still believe it?
#65
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What is the best compliment you have ever given me?

Follow-ups: Why did you say it? • Did I believe it?
#66
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What is one thing you think we should defend each other from?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Have we done it?
#67
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What is one thing you would never let me do without talking me out of it?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Have you tried?
#68
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What is the longest we have ever gone without talking, and how did it feel?

Follow-ups: Why the gap? • How did we reconnect?
#69
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What is one thing you want to know about my past?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Am I ready to answer?
#70
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What is one thing you want me to know about your past?

Follow-ups: Why now? • How will I react?
#71
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What is the most boring thing we somehow made fun?

Follow-ups: How did we do it? • Can we do it again?
#72
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What is one thing we should stop tolerating in other people?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Who is the offender?
#73
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What is one thing you think we both need to hear right now?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Who says it first?
#74
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What is the best decision we made as friends?

Follow-ups: Why was it the best? • What came after?
#75
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What is one thing you want to celebrate about us?

Follow-ups: Why that? • How do we mark it?
#76
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What is one thing you think our kids will find funny about us someday?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Will we explain it?
#77
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What is one thing you want to be doing together in twenty years?

Follow-ups: Why that? • What is step one?
#78
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What is the most money you have ever spent on something stupid with me?

Follow-ups: What was it? • Was it worth it?
#79
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What is one thing you would move cities for — and would you for me?

Follow-ups: Why that thing? • What is your answer?
#80
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What is one thing you think makes us different from other friend duos?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Who else comes close?
#81
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What is the best thing about having me as a friend?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Do I live up to it?
#82
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What is the hardest thing about having me as a friend?

Follow-ups: Why that? • How do we manage it?
#83
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What is one skill you have always wanted to pass on to me?

Follow-ups: Why that skill? • How patient will you be?
#84
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What is one thing you want to learn from me?

Follow-ups: Why that? • When do we start?
#85
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What is one thing you are glad you never kept from me?

Follow-ups: Why was it hard to share? • How did I react?
#86
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What is one thing you wish you had told me years ago?

Follow-ups: Why wait? • Does it still matter?
#87
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What is the one story about us you tell everyone?

Follow-ups: Why that one? • Do I tell it too?
#88
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What is one story about us you will take to the grave?

Follow-ups: Why keep it? • Will it ever come out?
#89
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What is one thing you want to do just the two of us, no group?

Follow-ups: Why just us? • When do we plan it?
#90
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What is one thing you want to do with the whole group this year?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Who is in charge?
#91
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What is the bravest thing you have ever seen me do?

Follow-ups: Why was it brave? • Did I know you saw?
#92
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What is one thing you think I am afraid to try?

Follow-ups: Why am I afraid? • Will you push me?
#93
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What is one thing you are afraid to try?

Follow-ups: Why the fear? • Will I push you?
#94
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What is one thing you want us to be famous in our family for?

Follow-ups: Why that? • How do we get there?
#95
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What is the most ridiculous thing we both take seriously?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Should we let it go?
#96
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What is one thing you think we should start a club about?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Who else joins?
#97
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What is one thing you want to bet me on?

Follow-ups: Why that? • What are the stakes?
#98
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What is one thing you already know you will lose a bet about?

Follow-ups: Why so sure? • What is the bet?
#99
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What is one thing you want to make up with me about someday when we are old?

Follow-ups: Why that? • How will it go?
#100
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What is one thing you want to remind me of when we are eighty?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Will I remember?
#101
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What is one thing you think I should do before I die?

Follow-ups: Why that? • Will you come with me?
#102
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What is one thing you think we should witness together?

Follow-ups: Why that? • When does it happen?
#103
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What is one thing you are thankful I talked you into?

Follow-ups: Why were you hesitant? • Was it worth it?
#104
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What is one thing you are thankful I talked you out of?

Follow-ups: Why was I against it? • What almost happened?
#105
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What is one thing you want our friendship to look like in ten years?

Follow-ups: Why that? • What is step one?