Thank God for girlfriends! No one else will understand you like a girlfriend would. When we were around 15 years of age, the word "opposite sex" came to have a thousand connotations and as many dreams. For me, it symbolized a knight in shining armor, as brave, as gallant and as romantic as my imagination would allow. It took more than two decades to realize the sexes cannot understand each other on the lines of our childhood dreams. (Some happy exceptions notwithstanding). So we have the man and the woman, who really are from different planets for all practical purposes, looking for the kind of complete acceptance that is just not possible to come by (not where they are looking). So as we finally go back to that warm circle of girlfriends (and boyfriends for the men), baring our hearts in the assurance that we will be understood, authors try to bridge the gap with books like "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus." Some titles are really intriguing, seeking to explain why women cry and why they cant read maps…Let them be na!
So there are couples who spend a lifetime trying to figure out what the other partner wants. Soon, one or both is frustrated and wants to opt out. Wouldn't it be much better if we just let each other be and satisfy the hunger for understanding with girlfriends? Get a life beyond the partner? It would certainly save a few marriages.
agreed..at times gfs...can also double up as shopping mates..and so on and so forth....u need someone to indulge with in shopping malls, coffee shops, book stores..or just hang out in the canteen and discuss life n work...and things your partner would term as 'non-issues'
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