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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The older I get the harder it is to maintain female circles of friendship. I love other women, but when the friendships are in groups I always encounter cattiness and gossip at some point. Do you think I will regret existing friendship circles when I’m older? I’m considering just perusing individual friendships moving forward.[/quote]

I don't do groups of ladies. I find the same thing and I have been in many groups from college onward both organized and informal-friendships. I do 1-1 or small group or couples.

I have known people over the years who had to have large social groups of ladies or couples and in almost every single one terrible things happened from a lady friend having an afraid with her BFF's husband to a petty fight breaking out and some queen B turning the other ladies against the one who dared to stand up to her. My parents had a large newtwork of couples friends and there was similar crazy. One wife flirted with her friend's husband all the time and when the friend passed away of a terrible disease she made a B line for the husband from the funeral onward and they are now married. There was pettiness and gossip. Now most of them barely speak to eachother and the ones who do have dementia and those convos are wild.

So no, a circle of friends is not needed. What you need is quality, not quantity. You need friends. That is important, but you figure out what that looks like. [/quote]

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