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I’ve had to break up with a couple of female friends in my day, and something occurred to me recently…I don’t know any men who have friendship breakups. Isn’t that bizarre? My boyfriend has had several male friends disappoint or anger him in some way, and, somehow, he was just able to naturally spend a little less time with them. They didn’t have to have a big talk about it. They didn’t have to break up. And the fact that he wanted or needed to reduce that friendship really didn’t seem to plague my boyfriend’s mind the way an impending friendship problem can plague mine. If a friend upsets me (or, worse, I just need to end a friendship) that issue consumes my thoughts until we have a big talk. I guess women have friendship breakups and men kind of don’t. Here are other realities of female friendship breakups.
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Your mutual friends take it hard
It’s a nightmare for your mutual friends. When they want to get the whole group together, they have to choose between inviting you, and the other friend. Or, they can just invite both of you, and leave it to you two to battle it out. Either way, it weighs on them, too.
