Posts tagged girl friends
It’s easiest to befriend people who live near to you, spend loads of time with you, and have similar experiences and temperaments to yours. Proximity and common ground foster close relationships, support networks, and mutual understanding. We love the ones we’re with, especially when we’re young.
Losing my girl friends — and yes, it feels like a loss, even if it is not permanent — feels like pieces of my safety net being snipped away. The reality is friends are my safety net, even more so than my own family. These are the women who’ve been there for every demoralizing breakup, every ludicrous boss, every tax-bill freakout, and, of course, every triumph. This weekend I was reading Anna Quindlen’s new memoir and there’s a chapter in it where she writes that if you ask women what gets them through each day, they might say it’s a great babysitter or an understanding boss. But the truth of the matter, Quindlen writes, is that what gets us ladies through each day is our girl friends.
