I've had some upheaval in my life over the last few years and my friendships have changed a lot, long story but people I used to be friendly with as couples are no longer available to me.
I do have friends, but most are fairly new friendships. I'm finding that men make decent friends and are reliable and available, but women have very busy lives and/or are flaky.
My current friends are:
A man I've known for 20+ years. We don't live close and don't meet up that often, but he makes himself available when I need a chat and when we do meet up it's like we've never been apart
A man I share an interest in. He's married so we're careful not be be "close" and only go to very public things relating to the interest, but he always includes me and always honours arrangements
A bit of a ladies man who doesn't fancy me, but invites me to things when he's at a lose end. That's fine, if I'm free I go, if I'm not I don't, but once he's made an arrangement he sticks to it.
A mixed group I know through sport, nice easy people, not particularly close friends but good fun company and commitments are generally honours, although it will be the women who drop out, there will still be enough people to go ahead.
A married woman, very busy with her family life, never wants to commit to anything until the weekend in question. Always there on the phone though.
A busy single career woman, also never wants to commit, rarely respond to messages, but always good when we do get together.
Various old female friends, where we do the "we must get together soon" thing for weeks on end.
A woman I train with, who always appears keen to meet up, but often cancels.
Let's assume everyone doesn't hate me, why don't I have better female friends?