I have gotten to have some quality girl talk this week over coffee, walks in the park and even while erasing pencil marks on CSAP test booklets with coworkers, and it really makes a difference to my sense of well-being. I am a verbal processor/thinker, and it sure helps to have someone to process life with, especially the difficult questions and the dreaming questions... Of course I'm always processing out loud to Matt and he's super empathetic =) but it's nice to get some female feedback! Here is what Gretchen Rubin has to say about contact with women in The Happiness Project::
"Perhaps because men have this low standard for what qualifies as intimacy, both men and women find relationships with women to be more intimate and enjoyable than those with men. Women have more feelings of empathy for other people than men do. In fact, for both men and women -- and this finding struck me as highly significant -- the most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't seem to make a difference" (p. 52).
Haha, of course I want no male to be offended, we need you too! But it is the female-feedback that is precious and priceless!
