One reason why a woman bonds with her women friends is the fact that they are both good listeners. There is a difference, you know, between listening and pretending to listen. There in could lay the key to the intrinsic bonds between women. When a woman talks, she is basically looking for a proper hearing, empathy and a non-judgmental understanding of the problem from her point of view. She is looking for a sounding board, a mirror, which, even if it reflects something not very positive, is not threatening. The group of female friends is as good as a family, they are also outside the family and don't get intrusive and morally judgmental the way family members can and often do. Much has been said about women and their capacity to talk. It is because women are open to discussing everything; there is nothing too trivial or too silly to be excluded. A woman can discuss anything from what clothes to buy or how she cried when her child fell down and hurt herself. Everything is meaningful. And it is catharsis or emotional purging that keeps women going despite adversities.

THE TIME FACTOR
Time pushes friendships often into the background. For a woman caught up with home, work, children, etc, the first casualty more often than not is time for women friends. When a woman gets married, she tends to get too caught up in her new life and her new responsibilities, as if in a subconscious way, she is beginning afresh in life. Making women friends is a wonderful survival strategy women have developed and they should never let it slide. Even the warmest, most compassionate marriage, he observes, can't meet all the needs that friends can. No matter after how long they decide to meet up, when they do they have lots of catching up to do.

LOSING TOUCH
Sometimes women neglect their girlfriends. Sometimes they are jealous of the new relationship in your life like a man. They think that they’ll be history for you and they are too much attached to get hurt. No amount of reassuring them that you would keep in touch seemed to shake their belief. Sometimes you just loose touch, the reasons could be many like career, place move etc. But sms, emails etc are good to keep in touch as it’s hard to find a good friend. Keeping in touch over the phone is the biggest binding factor. No matter how far you are, if there is a problem, you share it over the phone, take advice or cry our heart out to each other.

You have to have similar personalities, the same values, moral upbringing, ideals in life and some common traits to bond with each other. Women also have enough good sense to recognize the fact. It is not necessary to stay with each other always, stay in each other's minds.