Maybe you were different--but when after I finished undergraduate school and starting working "in the real world," I lost my interest in having female friends. Perhaps it was the "times," and the workplace (with men in charge) subtly encouraged us women to be competitors instead of allies. I had enjoyed my female roommates and friends in college, but I lost touch with them afterwards. I just didn't choose to have close female friends for many, many years.
Maybe I was too busy working and dating. It wasn't until I was in my late 30s that I started valuing female friendships again. Now, I am reminded of how wonderful woman friends can be. A friend just stopped in to bring a pot of soup she had cooked. My husband and I had a Dec. 24 dinner with two other couples. One of the women has been my friend for 30 years now.
It's great to have male friends, but I realize how many wonderful, talented, attractive, energetic, brilliant female friends I have. Thank goodness I got over that jealous, catty, fearful time in my life when I didn't seek out women friends. Here's best wishes to all my friends in 2009.
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