Very insightful! Giving some prior bad friend experiences some thought after reading this, I realized that the issue of how men and women tend to define friendship may be more problematic than I initially thought.
I (male, tending to have more female friends as I usually seek strong emotional support in those close to me) had a friend (female) I met my first year of college. She would go on about how close we were and how important the friendship was, but we fell out on numerous occasions due to her extremely blatant disregard for my emotions and general d... (read more)
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Very insightful! Giving some prior bad friend experiences some thought after reading this, I realized that the issue of how men and women tend to define friendship may be more problematic than I initially thought.
I (male, tending to have more female friends as I usually seek strong emotional support in those close to me) had a friend (female) I met my first year of college. She would go on about how close we were and how important the friendship was, but we fell out on numerous occasions due to her extremely blatant disregard for my emotions and general d... (read more)