Jealousy- does anyone else suffer from it?

I'm very jealous of women who get on well with other women. I would really like some close friends but I have no success making friends....over the years women I've met and have liked have not shown any desire to form a relationship with me and yet they do with many other women. I've listened, I've shown compassion, honesty, humour, generosity, but still they don't want to know. I despair.

Oh yes, me too! Seeing groups of female friends together laughing, joking, sharing secrets. I'd LOVE to have that. My cousin said when she had a baby, she met 'a great group of girls' in the postnatal class and they're forever friends now.

After I had a baby, I was just bullied by my post natal group members and so had to find another group. That group too viewed me with suspicion and I never got this group of female friends I wanted. I don't know what I do wrong.

I’d be your friend! My son is all grown up but would you want to have a group you were constantly indebted to? I think I worked out that sacrificing my freedom and also my desires and analytical self to some tribal situation would leave me shut down. I’d rather read. :)

I’d be your friend! My son is all grown up but would you want to have a group you were constantly indebted to? I think I worked out that sacrificing my freedom and also my desires and analytical self to some tribal situation would leave me shut down. I’d rather read. :)

No, I'd love to have that group of female friends I could always turn to when I needed them. My daughter was desperately ill when she was little, I had no friends to turn to for support. We live down a lonely, deserted road. Some days I'd been looking after her for 10 hours straight without a break, I'd have given anything for a friend to talk to. I had to rely on random Facebook people, who of course couldn't come round and take care of her for an hour while I slept or had a shower or whatever. I just needed some people there physically to help me. Online friends are only so helpful.

If we lived nearby though Juniper I'd happily be your friend!