Why do you forgive your boyfriend more than your girl friend?
If you are guilty, then you are part of the problem— that men can get away with anything.
While “cutting off” people is often praised as self-care, I’ve noticed that it mostly happens in female friendships. Not their toxic relationships with men. Not their red-flag boyfriends. But the women in our lives—those we call our soulmates—are the first ones we exile.
Why do we set so many negotiables and non-negotiables with friends, but with our romantic relationships, we let a lot of things slide?
We let men stay the same—rationalizing their silence, their temper, their laziness, their cheatings—because “boys will be boys.” But our female friends? We hold them to impossible standards. We punish them for slipping. We criticize them for not always being perfect.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t walk away. I’m just wondering why it’s always from the ones who look like us.
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