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Believe it or not but, I’ve never really had a core group of female friends. I have several small clusters of good girlfriends—the largest group made up of just four of us including me, and one of those lives out of town. Other than that, I have various individual women whom I adore, who don’t know each other at all (or meet once a year at my birthday party). Growing up, there were those strong cliques in my high school and college—those groups of girls who ran six to ten women deep. They were always doing slumber parties and going on trips together. There was always some commotion about one possibly like another’s boyfriend. For better or for worse, female cliques are very strongly bonded and their lives are deeply intertwined. I’ve never quite had that and this is how it affected me.
Almost no drama
My friendships have remained pretty drama-free. Since I have several tiny friend groups rather than a massive one, the likelihood that anyone is in a fight about anything is very small.
