To think women with sisters are often better at female friendships?

[Tartanchair01]

I only have 1 sibling, a brother.

I would say I’ve struggled with female friendships my whole life. I do now have lots of good, female friends but this has taken years of work and I still now am not good in a group of women.

I’ve observed over the years that my friends who have sisters all seem to also have lots of female friends and don’t seem to struggle in big, female groups, in fact I’d say they are the people I know who do have big, female friendship groups.

I’ve always thought perhaps it’s because they’re so used to how to be around other women and can navigate the common issues surrounding female friendships and female friendship groups better than women that have grown up with a lot of male siblings (well, can navigate them better than me anyway 🙈)

Obviously this is a purely anecdotal observation lol, but it’s got me thinking.

Quite the reverse for me! I have a brother. He and his mates definitely put me off boys 😂

All my close friends are women( except DH), I vastly prefer female company.

I only have a brother and have no issue making friends.

I have minimal patience for stereotypically girly bitchiness and nonsense though but that's maybe just my personality.

I've found it to be the exact opposite for me. I had a ready made female friend (and still do). Didn't have to be nice to her growing up, knew I could just depend on her to be there no matter what. She still is.

I've never managed to replicate really close female friends like that and don't have a group of female friends I'm close to.

DD only has a brother, he is also autistic so no social help there but she has always been intensely social and has various groups of friends. I have a sister as well as brothers and have a few friends but don't struggle to get on with women. Maybe it's just personality.

My sister and I really didn’t have much to do with each other growing up. Different people really, but we are super close now.

Oh but we both have lots of friends.

I would love to have just one friend to be honest! Male or female! I'm one of four (two of each) and had plenty of strong female influences in my life. My mum had lots of female friends and I had many female cousins, all very local growing up. Even still, I struggle with that elusive 'next level friendship' that others seem to have. I'm a nice person, lots to offer, but somehow was always on the edges of groups and never confident enough to put myself out there as a youngster. I realise (as an adult) that I'm a classic introvert, and do make real efforts to join things and I have friends, but not in the way that I could just call up for a chat (and certainly nobody I could call in a crisis). I guess they are more 'people I socialise with' really, which is ok, but makes me quite sad when I think about it.

I have brothers and find female friendships and friendships in general pretty easy

I have 4 sisters and never really been a person to have lots of girls friends . I am naturally quiet though . Also get on really well with my sisters.
The friends I have that seem to naturally have lots of girl friends don’t have sisters at all thinking about it .