(August 31, 2015 at 2:55 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Men and women make different kinds of friends. I loved working with guys and doing things with them (not I don't mean those things--that's a different conversation). Guys are much more straightforward than women and less easily offended. They play a little rougher which I like.
Women friends are for doing girl things, and talking about awful childhoods, and venting. I walk on egg shells a little around other girls. I don't have the knack.
The very best friend for me is a girl who behaves a lot more like a guy.
You sound like my wife Lia. One thing she did like about her first husband -back in the sixties- is that he treated her like a buddy. At one point they went to Europe for a year of study on an art grant he had earned. When they were visiting another couple, Lia would join right in the discussion. To her shock the other wife challenged her on her qualifications to speak. Talk about the other crabs in the pot not wanting to let any of the others get out! Plus she thinks too many women speak in little girl voices which drive her up the wall. She loves it with me because I hold her to account on everything. The roof is leaking and we need to use some of that black patch? Get your coat on hon.
