something I read on here a lot, as well as hear it in RL is that girls have complicated friendships with lots of machinations/ politics/ ins and outs etc, whereas boys are a bit simple "like dogs" and their friendships just involve running around and destroying things or whatever with no emotions or complications involved.
I have two DS's. The youngest is too young for this to really be an issue, but I have foudn the opposite with the eldest. He is constantly falling out with and making up with his best friend, and their friendship seems endlessly complicated. DS is always worried htat his bf likes someone else more, or played with someone else or etc etc. He is also generally pretty emotionally complicated and sensitive (this is not a stealth boast btw- it can be hard to deal with) and it's hard to navigate his endlessly changing emotions and sensitivities about random things. He really isn't "like a dog" at all. IS he the only one?
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to think that boys and their friendships are just as complicated as girls
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deliverdaniel · 23/04/2017 00:23
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