invest energy in connections that won’t lead anywhere meaningful.
The cost: loneliness and misunderstandings.
The benefit: when they find a friendship, it’s real.
They prefer one true friend to twenty acquaintances.
Ethics
4. They have a rich inner life.
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They live in a culture that often associates being alone with being sad.
But these women can be alone without feeling lonely.
People& Society
They have interests, projects, reading, reflections, creativity, and an active spiritual or intellectual world. They don’t need constant external stimulation to feel