People are so busy today that women need permission to spend time with their friends. In my work as a psychotherapist, I found that when women did not have enough of a support group they tended to get depressed. We feel we need these friends to share our hearts with in order to have better mental and physical health. As women, we are different. But the one foundation that we have is that we all love the Lord and we have based our friendship on that.
Women are twice as likely to get depressed as men.
Part of the reason is because at birth we are oriented toward relationships, so we really must have sufficient female bonds in our lives to feel good about life. Women need to reach out. It is hard to do sometimes, but we have to keep reaching out. We have to ask the Lord to bring us people that will walk alongside of us and be our friends for this particular season in our life. I think that praying is step one.