E is for excuses … and how I’m not going to make any for missing yesterday’s post in the A-Z blogging challenge! I knew it’d be tough to blog here daily this month and I still wanted to take on the challenge. When you fall you gotta get back up again so moving on …

F is for female friendships …

For today’s prompt I really just want to make a book recommendation. The book is The Twisted Sisterhood: Unraveling the Dark Legacy of Female Friendships by Kelly Valen. It discusses the difficulties that many women have with making and keeping female friends. but very clearly acknowledges the benefits of those friendships in our lives once we have resolved some of those issues for ourselves.

I have definitely struggled with female friendships in the past. Girls are cliquey. The experiences we have with girlfriends in our formative years always have some rough patches. Combine that with the difficulties we have in our relationships with our mothers and sisters and you’ve got a situation in which it is difficult to openly trust entering into friendships with other women.

However some of my best friends are female and the struggles have more or less gone away as I’ve gotten older. I think it’s an important topic for women to look at and the book definitely covers it way better than I can so I’d recommend it to others for sure.

Tags: a-z blogging challenge, friendships