Like Having Coffee With the Girls
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Girls’
night out has become a popular catch phrase in recent years. Whether you take the phrase as marketing jargon
or a fantastic overdue reminder to call your friends out to play, science shows
that the bonds we share with our female friends play an important role in our
happiness.
“As a species, we are designed to live in small, stable,
close-knit tribes or communities. In modern Western cultures, since the
industrial revolution, there has been a significant rise in social isolation -
in the fragmentation of traditional communities and kinship networks. More of
us are living alone, often in big cities, working long hours and experiencing a
profound sense of alienation and insecurity. But the need for social bonding,
the 'tribal' instinct, is a deep-rooted part of human nature, hard-wired into
the human brain by our evolutionary heritage.” (excerpt from the Social Issues
Research Centre article Girl Talk)
Communicating, laughing, growing stronger with each other
is a form of resistance. Our girlfriends fill the emotional gaps in our marriage and provide
us with unconditional love. They
know our friends and family well enough to understand our complaints and
stories but have enough distance to offer objective advice. They are the ones who have struggled with
family, children, hormones, work and life through the same lens you have.
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