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How many of you depend on your female friends to help you through a difficult situation? Maybe you rely on their support and ability to listen when you need to vent or have someone tell you you’re not crazy?
HealthyLife magazine — of which I am editor — is looking for women to tell us whether it’s important to make time to get together with their women friends. If so, why? What do you get from time spent with them?
Help us get the discussion started. Visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/HealthyLifeCTmagazine and click on “Discussion” in the left menu bar. Add your comments. Don’t be shy!! We’d love to run some of your answers (with first names only!) in the magazine.
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I honestly don’t know where I’d be without my female friends. I am very blessed to have a group of truly incredible women I’m lucky enough to call my friends. We aren’t a tight knit group… in fact, if you put all my lady friends in a room together, they’d probably kill each other since they’re SO different. From the best friend I met on the first day of junior high school when I was 12 to the professional dancer I’m so close to I call her my sister wife, they’re all amazing. I don’t buy into the social norms that state that women have to belittle each other and put each other down to make themselves feel better. I celebrate my friends’ accomplishments as if they were my own and they show me the same respect. They are, in fact, more supportive than my own family. I probably won’t make it to the Facebook page but feel free to email me.
My friendships span over 25 yrs. Some met in playgroup when the kids were small, others we picked up along the way. We have all supported each other through illness, deaths of parents and just the roadblocks life throws at you and you cannot get over alone. We know the best and the worst and still love each other. It went from girls night out in bars to a nice quiet girls night in with good food, lots of wine and just funny exchange of daily events. I would not survive without my “girls”!
I barely have time for my friends, when I make the time I come away rejuvenated – like drinking a cold glass of water. They’re a pick me up, and I’m sure it’s mutual. Gotta make time to smell the flowers.
I rely on my MALE friends just as much as my FEMALE friends and resent the sexism that men cannot give emotional support and advice just as well as a woman can. They both mean a lot to me, but as individuals, not as stereotypes.