Being in a best friend trio is one of the greatest adventures you could commit yourself to. You have double the moral support whenever you're going through a personal crisis, you have two different people you can have as your wing women whenever you go and you have a plethora of cool names you can refer to yourselves as (the three amigos, the three musketeers, the holy trinity, or Carrie, Charlotte and Samantha because who really wants to be Miranda anyways). Of course it's easy to feel like the luckiest girl in the world with two incredible ladies by your side but we all know there is a fair share of struggles with having a best friend triad as well.

1. There are a lot of things you can miss out on. If you miss a night out for a study session, you could miss out on more inside jokes with your besties than you thought possible. Your group chat could be exploding with texts between the two others about funny memories that happened without you or you could scroll through Instagram and see pictures that make your heart hurt a little bit. How could Samantha and Carrie take those pictures without their Charlotte in them?!
2. One person is bound to be the newcomer. Chances are the three of you didn't all meet at exactly the same moment of time, but hey, if you did, fate is absolutely on your side. For the rest of us, there was a time B.T (before trio) that one third of you missed out on. It can get a little awkward when someone makes references to high school friends that you've never met or talking about them surviving the same dorm food you've never had.
3. There is bound to be a lot of miscommunication. If you are in a best friend triad, you obviously have a group chat with the three of you, however, things always find a way to get lost in translation. If you text someone outside of the group chat to make plans or make study plans with just one of your friends, someone is bound to get offended or take it personally even if it wasn't meant to be.
4. Your social media picture pose just doesn't look the same with two. Everyone is used to the three of you plastering every social media with photos of your gorgeous trio and so it always seems wrong whenever there's only two thirds of the trio in the photo. Sure, the sorority squat might still look cute, but it doesn't look the same with two.
5. Your roles are so specific, that when there's a gap, the balance is thrown off. You love your best friends for totally different reasons, and when someone is gone, it's totally noticeable. Things get a little out of hand when the sensible one is away, or it's a little too dark without the wild child. You're three pieces of a whole, and it just isn't quite the same when these pieces are scattered.