Women forge stronger and closer friendships

A study which has just been presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has analyzed the friendships of young people of both sexes. He concluded that in the case of girls, if they managed to maintain a friendship with another girl over time, even if there was distance involved, it is because they cared about establishing continuous and prolonged telephone contact.

The women They usually have friendly relationships much stronger and closer than men. These are very similar to romantic relationships, in the sense that if they break up they are more likely to do so catastrophically.

The boys, for their part, kept their friends thanks to doing things together. Men, however, by not being so drastic in their friendly relationships, would be more likely to maintain their gang over the years.

True friendship is like phosphorescence, it shines best when everything has gone dark.

Friendship is more difficult and rarer than love, that is why it must be saved no matter what.

Friendships, like all valuable relationships in life, have ups and downs. It is said that men solve all problems with a fight and then a hug, on the other hand, women would have a greater tendency to keep their anger to themselves. Another cliché about men’s friendships is that when they are worried about something, they just need to have a drink together and not talk about that problem. On the other hand, women need to tell each other everything.

These ideas, although very common, are still vague, simplistic and imprecise generalizations. Of course, it seems that some of this reasoning may have some reason. Men’s friendships are more instrumental and less emotional. Therefore, their friendships are more focused on enjoying a common activity. Logically, depending on the social context, the details of the relationship may change, but the essence itself is the same.

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Women often meet up with old friends regularly. or, at least, call each other on the phone from time to time to catch up. On the other hand, this dynamic is less common in the male sex. The bonds of friendship that women create also bring us full satisfaction, emotional support and security, a source of well-being to develop high and good self-esteem.

Friends are those strange beings who ask us how we are and wait to hear the answer.

Friendship doubles the joys and divides the anguish in half

There is no doubt that human beings are social by nature. Which grows, develops and matures through dealings with other people around it. Making friends is something fundamental and very important in anyone’s life. The benefits that friendships bring us are numerous, both socially and for our emotional and physical health.

Good friendships give us:

Emotional support and security. Helps develop high self-esteem. Promotes social integration. Provides sincere company. Provides pleasure. Allows us to grow personally. Provides support and security in the most difficult moments.

On the contrary, the absence of friends is just as bad as smoking or alcohol addiction. Researchers at Brigham Young University in the United States concluded, after studying 300,000 people for seven years, that lack of interpersonal relationships is equivalent to smoking more than 15 cigarettes a day or drink six glasses of intoxicating drinks daily.

If anyone has not identified with these statements or does not agree with any point, indicate that these ideas are only an approach to reality. Each person and group of friends has a way of relating and there are many more similarities between them than the differences.