|
Users viewing this topic:
none
|
|
Login  | |
|
RE: Which Gender Do You Get Along Better With? - 7/17/2008 9:41:45 PM
|
|
|
baldman24
Posts: 9
Joined: 4/17/2005
Status: offline
|
Wow! Looks like I'm really late to the topic discussion as well!
It's kind of funny, but as a 31-year-old male, I get along fantastically well with the "little old ladies." No, it's true. I have found in my life that a lot of elderly women have been unusually supportive of me (some of them even have a certain amount of pity for my single status!) It's a different story with women my age....a lot of them just seem to act a little aloof or snooty (don't take offense, gals! Rest assured I'm not referring to anyone here!) I just have to wonder what gives? I try to be friendly with everyone...the older gals are much more open with me than the younger ones.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Which Gender Do You Get Along Better With? - 7/18/2008 8:36:56 AM
|
|
|
CoeurdeLeon
Posts: 8171
Joined: 9/4/2005
From: Inside my head
Status: online
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: BugLady
quote:
I do not feel comfortable when everyone gathers together and I am the only single.
Same here. It makes it challenging when trying to expand your social circle.
quote:
Online - I have more friendships with women.
Again, same here. At least they claim to be women. 
I am, and always have been, a woman. Well, I was a girl first, but you know what I mean.
_____________________________
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through the restraints.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Which Gender Do You Get Along Better With? - 7/18/2008 8:46:52 AM
|
|
|
CoeurdeLeon
Posts: 8171
Joined: 9/4/2005
From: Inside my head
Status: online
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: WaitingforBoaz
Pre-marriage - I got along better with men. I only had two girl friends that I was close to, the rest of my friends were men.
After marriage and kids - Most all of my friends were women. I am also good friends with many of their husbands. (dated two of them)
Now ? Everyone I know is married. We are still great friends and have been for over twenty years, but since my husband died, the dynamics have changed. I do not feel comfortable when everyone gathers together and I am the only single. 
Online - I have more friendships with women.
This is similar to my situation except, in the divorce all our couples friends didn't want to "take sides" (or something, I don't know for sure, maybe they didn't like me in the first place) so I lost all of them. Now, IRL I don't have any balance in my friendships, it's all women. And I feel......out of balance. I'd give a lot to be included in a "mixed company" gathering. I can hardly make friends with married men and single men are going to think any friendly overtures are something else entirely. It sorta stinks.
Thankfully, I do have guy friends online and they have been life-savers! I think I still have more online women friends but that may just be a numbers thing. There are more women here so the likelihood of finding more women who are of the personality type that I get along with is higher.
_____________________________
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through the restraints.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Which Gender Do You Get Along Better With? - 7/18/2008 8:22:43 PM
|
|
|
WaitingforBoaz
Posts: 3344
Joined: 2/11/2008
From: The Hundred Acre Wood
Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: CoeurdeLeon
quote:
ORIGINAL: WaitingforBoaz
Pre-marriage - I got along better with men. I only had two girl friends that I was close to, the rest of my friends were men.
After marriage and kids - Most all of my friends were women. I am also good friends with many of their husbands. (dated two of them)
Now ? Everyone I know is married. We are still great friends and have been for over twenty years, but since my husband died, the dynamics have changed. I do not feel comfortable when everyone gathers together and I am the only single.
Online - I have more friendships with women.
This is similar to my situation except, in the divorce all our couples friends didn't want to "take sides" (or something, I don't know for sure, maybe they didn't like me in the first place) so I lost all of them. Now, IRL I don't have any balance in my friendships, it's all women. And I feel......out of balance. I'd give a lot to be included in a "mixed company" gathering. I can hardly make friends with married men and single men are going to think any friendly overtures are something else entirely. It sorta stinks.
Thankfully, I do have guy friends online and they have been life-savers! I think I still have more online women friends but that may just be a numbers thing. There are more women here so the likelihood of finding more women who are of the personality type that I get along with is higher.
Yes, I think having guys as friends may be in the past. Other than the husbands of my girlfriends. It must have been a college age thing.
_____________________________
Nadine
"It's like everything good collided today" quote from my 8yr old daughter
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Which Gender Do You Get Along Better With? - 7/19/2008 8:32:11 AM
|
|
|
humbleinspirit
Posts: 15414
Joined: 4/13/2005
From: Just Outside of Boston
Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: CoeurdeLeon
This is similar to my situation except, in the divorce all our couples friends didn't want to "take sides" (or something, I don't know for sure, maybe they didn't like me in the first place) so I lost all of them.
I have lost some friends in the past from refusing to take sides also!  Except it wasn't from divorces though.
_____________________________
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Which Gender Do You Get Along Better With? - 7/20/2008 2:10:19 AM
|
|
|
beachcooky
Posts: 655
Joined: 6/21/2008
Status: offline
|
Men, hands down.
Doesn't mean I hate girls or stuff.
But I find myself getting along better with guys then women.
_____________________________
www.myspace.com/xsweetheartforux
|
|
|
|
 New Messages |
 No New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/ New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/o New Messages |
 Locked w/ New Messages |
 Locked w/o New Messages |
|
 Post New Thread
Reply to Message
Post New Poll
Submit Vote
Delete My Own Post
Delete My Own Thread
Rate Posts |
|
|
Forum Tools
Printable Version
)
. Well at least not yet.
