Posts Tagged ‘female friendships’

Stopping Friends Becoming Foes

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Friendships are a funny old game. I don’t think I’ve ever really been very good at them to be honest. A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine decided to ‘break up’ with me, if you will, citing my truly sucky friendship skills. She was right, to be fair – I have not been the greatest amigo. It’s a sad loss, but one that has been rather sobering for me. While there’s nothing I can really do about the loss of that friendship, there’s still time for me to learn some lessons and buck up my ideas, so what have I learned?

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‘Can I Call Him Yet?’

Friday, May 4th, 2012

I was on the train yesterday, eavesdropping on someone’s phone conversation as I tend to do to pass the time. This particular was one that was all too familiar. ‘Don’t call him yet, it’s too soon!’ the girl said to her friend on the other end of the line. Ahh, how I don’t miss those days. My God, the dating game is hard ain’t it? All these rules. It’s so confusing for everyone involved. We meet a guy and feel the need to have this tribal council with our friends who all seem to have researched and developed these fail safe guidelines on how to keep a guy interested. We’re tying ourselves in knots here! Look ladies, it’s really not that difficult. Let’s break this thing all the way down.

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Can You Take a Compliment?

Monday, July 18th, 2011

What is it about compliments? Why can’t we just graciously accept them? There’s always that faux deflection (‘What? This old thing? Oh, it’s nothing, really’), even if we spent hours beautifying ourselves in the hope that someone, somewhere would appreciate the extra effort. It seems, for women, the tide has turned and for many, while growing up, all we wanted was for the boys to say something nice, now a compliment from another woman has more meaning. Why is that?

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