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Are you struggling to connect with other women and establish meaningful friendships? One of the most common challenges we all face in our lives is finding that special bond with someone who just “gets” us. But fear not, there are many signs and traits that make you want to be friends with another woman. Let’s explore them together and find practical solutions to cultivate lasting friendships that resonate with you.
Signs and Traits to Look For:
1. Empathy and Understanding: A friend who truly listens to you, validates your feelings, and provides support during tough times.
2. Shared Interests and Hobbies: Bonding over common passions, whether it’s hiking, reading, or cooking, can strengthen your friendship.
3. Open Communication: Feeling comfortable enough to be vulnerable and honest with each other creates a strong foundation for a lasting friendship.
4. Mutual Respect and Trust: Trusting each other’s intentions, values, and boundaries is essential for a healthy friendship.
5. Sense of Humor: Laughter is the best medicine, and a friend who can make you laugh and lighten your mood is invaluable.
6. Loyalty and Dependability: Knowing you can count on each other through thick and thin builds trust and deepens the friendship.
Solutions to Building Strong Female Friendships:
1. Join Female-focused Communities: Whether it’s a book club, a fitness class, or a networking event, surrounding yourself with like-minded women increases the chances of finding friends who share your values.
2. Reach Out and Initiate Conversations: Take the first step in initiating interactions and getting to know other women. Ask open-ended questions and show genuine interest in their lives.
3. Be Authentic and Vulnerable: Share your own insecurities, fears, and vulnerabilities to create a deeper connection with others.
4. Plan Social Activities Together: Organize outings, movie nights, or coffee dates to spend quality time together and strengthen your bond.
5. Practice Active Listening: Show empathy, understanding, and attentiveness when your friend shares their thoughts and feelings.
Remember, building strong female friendships takes time, effort, and vulnerability. Be patient with yourself and others, and trust that the right friends will come into your life when the time is right. Embrace the journey of growing friendships and cherish the special connections you form along the way. 🌸👯💕
She hates capitalism, is a weird hippie, and makes art. Also probably dresses like a toddler crossed with a grandma.
If she’s funny and loud and talks a lot. I love a yapper.
Intelligence, humor, shared (leftist) values/ethics, interesting hobbies/interests.
She’s empathetic, validating, a good listener, our fundamental values align, and she doesn’t feel a sense of unhealthy competitiveness towards other women. I have seen far too many women self-sabotage due to their hyper competitive nature towards other women. It’s truly devastating.
I only get along with women who don’t feel the need to compete with other women just because. It’s not a competition, it’s a friendship. We should be in it together, not fighting one another. My last female friend I made actually came up to me to tell me that I seem really cool, and she liked that I’m laid back and don’t worry about other peoples opinions. I told her that I’m not competing for anything, just doing my thing, and we clicked right then and there.
When she is confident and has extroverted vibe. As an extrovert myself, it’s easy for me to talk to people but when I see that their energy doesn’t match mine I take a step back. I always love it when I find a fellow yapper who is a “girls girl”.
Women who are witty/funny who keep the vibes up are the ones on the train to friendship town
She’s a great listener, kind and she’s the type I know I’d feel comfortable crying around
My bestie is someone I’ve only known for 2.5 years, but my gosh is she the piece of my life I never knew was missing. She’s the complete opposite to me, I’m quirky and colourful, she’s dark and not so quirky, we bring out the best in each others dark days. She’s the moon to my sun. We both have 3 kids, hers are boys, mine girls, and we just have the best friendship. Right now we’re both going through some life changes so we haven’t been able to be in contact as much, but neither of us holds it against the other.
Believes in human rights and can laugh at herself.
My favorite calls from my friends are when they’re in tears, laughing at a dumb situation they experienced.
If i’m a little bit intimidated by her, it’s usually a sign we’ll be best pals.
Supportive, not jealous, warm presence, emotionally intelligent, low maintenance.
Sarcasm.
Career driven, supportive, open minded, mentally/emotionally strong
I like when extroverts adopt me
1 – Knows how to listen and reflect back at me how I feel. Makes me feel heard and understood. Often by repeating back at me what I’ve said, but rephrasing it. Like “omg, I know the feel, like when they do XYZ” where XYZ is a great example of the thing I was complaining about. Just being able to validate my feelings like that is soooo good. Ofc if I’m being an asshat she shouldn’t validate me, but just knowing how to do it when it’s appropriate is a great skill.
2 – Being fun. Being able to lead a conversation, tell mundane life stories in a funny way, banter back and forth. Mostly just having a lot of content, meaning she likely has hobbies, rich inner life, and a rich social life, so she always has things to talk about, whether it’s ideas from the book she’s read or debate she’s watched, video game strategies, random work drama, finding parts for retro consoles she’s fixing, new recipes she’s tried, her dog’s escapades whatever. Just a lot of content to make conversations fun.
3 – Intelligence. This one is not necessary, nor is it enough by itself, but it’s a huge boost to the first two. I will never feel fully seen by friends who can’t imagine my mental processes, nor will they provide as stimulating of a conversation. They can still be great, but I do appreciate it when we’re about equal on that.
4 – Good with boundaries. I am a pretty accommodating person, but I prefer people who don’t take too much of an advantage of that. If somebody is really pushy, I will usually give them a few chances, but if they can’t respect me, I’ll nope tf out.
I love making friends with women that support other women, are kind, at least somewhat confident, and also don’t need a lot of my time/attention. Let me explain, I get along best with the ladies that understand that we are still friends even if we don’t talk every day/every week. Like, girl, I’ll always answer your call but I also don’t have a very big social battery.
THE FUNNY
She has integrity and is outdoorsy but likes a beer after a hike. She is fearless and will call me out when I need it.
If she’s funny, can laugh at herself/doesn’t take herself too seriously and is emotionally intelligent, I think we’ll get along great! Also someone who sings along to Taylor Swift with me at karaoke.
When we’ve just met and she already dives into the deep stuff. If theres one thing I despise its small talk.
Please, tell me the thoughts that keep you up at night, or the guy you hooked up with last weekend, or the tea from your old high school that you just have to debrief about again. I can find out what your favorite color is later
It’s a whole package. Values, interests, overall energy, openness. Ability to banter. I love it when someone asks and enjoys answering thoughtful questions. Kindness. Warmth. Up-for-it-ness. Directness. When we’re just different enough to keep pushing one another to grow. 💜
What I don’t love is that weird secret competitiveness. Flightiness. Impatience or inflexibility.
I love women who are very direct and brutally honest with others. I’m a very sensitive and shy person so I need the tough love of very honest friends.
Friendly, outgoing, similar interests.
Good listener .
Pure hearted… Lil bit naughty… Openminded (can debate or dicuss any kinda tooic without hesitation)
Down to earth and easygoing are my main things. If she has similar morals and views then that’s a major plus. I’ve realized I can’t stand braggarts and gossips. So long as she isn’t one of these then we can pretty much get along whatever the case
Kind, thoughtful, knows herself and lifts others up. Humour is great too.
When you dont even know her and you guys have an eye contact and laugh about something. When she doesnt embarrass anyone, won’t compete and is just genuinely supportive of things. Such women are just amazing <3 can be friends if youre reading this?
oddly enough if she was SPECIFICALLY a 2013 one direction stan. in all my best friendships ive noticed this theres something about the sense of humor that is so distinct for this phase in pop culture lol
I mainly gravitate towards kindness and consideration. I have both very quiet friends and very yappy ones and I love a mix of both! But they are all consistently kind and considerate
boosting other women up instead of tearing them down
She is not obsessed with social media or boys. I really find it hard to make women friends in college because every other girl is either attached to her phone constantly making Instagram or Tiktok, or they are overtly obsessed with boys and keep playing into popularity contests to attract men.
Funny, proud about herself, and takes up lots of space in a room, unapologetic, and genuinely is kind or polite.
being totally cool, fun, and not judgemental.
My current bestie is sooo super chill, we clicked right away.
Like I can talk to this girl about anything! Even the dumb stuff, which I think is the most important stuff to be able to talk about, in friendships.
Like I could talk to her about my embarrassing moments as a sugar baby. About smoking weed and doing shrooms, and about texting my ex when I got drunk and about the time I slept with the guy she watched me block.
Lol
the key is that we laugh about the dumb stuff. The friendship vibe is like… unserious. Like 2 comedians hanging out. Lol
Introvert with a crazy side
I almost instantly knew (it was within 5 mins of us meeting) I wanted to be friends with my best friend. Her entire aura and vibe was just spot on. She has a soft soothing voice, she likes to joke around, asking all the right questions trying to find something in common. Everything was just… perfect. Almost too perfect know that I think of it🤔