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Love relationships between women and men are difficult complex and sometimes overwhelming and authors expert and friends are always willing to offer advice on how to overcome them. In a welcome and overdue twist on the old theme many authors have decided over the years to explore the intense nature of friendships between women so widely experienced yet traditionally downplayed.

Experts suggest that women's friendships are rooted in the bonds between a mother and a daughter. Subconsciously competing for the love of the same man husband and father the relationship of future women friends is directly related to the experience a woman had while growing up. With this backdrop of keen identification a woman can often feel the very pain or joy that her friend may be experiencing. But along with this astonishing intimacy however come the usual strains of mutual dependency between mother and daughter. As numerous examples illustrate a woman may be scarred for life and never forget the devastation she might feel in case she gets betrayed or abandoned by another woman. As many women can regretfully attest these negative and stressful feelings are generally associated with the pain of ending a love relationship with a man due to a friend's act.

Most frequent than in men's friendships feelings of jealousy competition anger and guilt inevitably arise in women's friendships due to the threat they feel in balancing a relationship with another woman and yet maintain a healthy open and intimate relationship with a man. Moreover these competitive feelings might arise when one friend gets a new job while another does not succeed the same if one falls in love and the other feels extremely lonely at that time in case one wants to have a child and has yet to stand painfully by her friend's pregnancy. Psychotherapists advocate that women friends openly acknowledge the negative feelings between them in the belief that differences if are successfully sorted out can lead to a much fuller friendship.

If you are interested in exploring this provocative subject and you feel secure enough to discuss it with your female friend try opening up some of the hidden and more difficult aspects of your friendship and you will probably be amazed with the things you will discover for the other person's inner feelings apart from your own thoughts. In fact such matters are daily the main subject of discussion between many women friends who want to explore them further with the help of their good female friend.

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