Keep Your Friends Close

by Lucinda Berry

Women bond over secrets. That’s what female friendships are made of—shared secrets. It doesn’t matter if they’re yours or somebody else’s. You want to know the hidden parts of a woman’s life? The things she keeps tucked away from the outside world? Ask her best friend. She knows all her secrets.

but she didn’t care about that because she didn’t have anything to lose. I had everything. Our playing fields weren’t equal. They never had been. I wasn’t

even sure we were playing the same game.

Men didn’t have the same burden, so how could he know? How could I expect him to understand? No man really could. They got points just

for sticking around and not leaving. Their bar for parenthood was set so low, you could step over it. Ours was impossible to reach, and there was no way to win no matter what you did.