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[quote=Anonymous]Outwardly I'm a socially successful middle-aged adult. I am married and have a kid, and have very good relationships with both of them. I have a variety of friends from different times in my life, including a handful of friendships older than 15 years. I have not done a great job at staying in touch with friends from growing up, but do still maintain some contact with them and when we do see each other (very occasionally) we get on well. My husband and I have a lot of couple friends and family friends, and I'd say we have a reasonably active social life, with social things most weekends.

But I do not have a single close girlfriend. I do have a few girlfriends who I like and spend time with, but we aren't close. For instance, yesterday my family went out with some friends for an outing, and the two other women there are very close friends (used to work together for many years, maid of honor in each others weddings) and while I like them both and I know they like me, and we get along great and do hang out sometimes, I was thinking about how I just do not have a friendship like that in my life and never really have.

I'm not really sure why. I like women, am not over-competitive or jealous, and have always craved female friendship. But I've just never really found a truly close female friend like that. It sounds really wonderful. I have a sister but we aren't close at all -- she is ultra-religious and while we get along well enough when we visit, we just don't have anything in common.

I feel like most of the women I know have at least one friendship like this. I can't figure out what I've done wrong.[/quote]

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