How do I keep any female friendship? Here is your answer

Female friendships thrive on loyalty

LOYALTY, a sense of humour and being truthful are the top qualities for a perfect female friendship. i.e. Keeping a secret is key to any female friendship, research reveals

 

Always being there, the ability to keep a secret, being a good listener and being caring are the other key virtues that more than half of all women look for in a best friend.

Having a friend who is the life and soul of the party and loves a night out is attractive to just over a third, says a survey for bingo website Meccabingo. Opposites don’t attract when it comes to close friends, with just seven per cent becoming best pals with people who have different interests.

Some 37 per cent think having shared interests and hobbies is important. Trust among friends builds up over time with younger women being the least trusting of best friends when it comes to their partners.

 

Some 30 per cent of women aged 18 to 24 admitted looking for a bestfriend who doesn’t fancy their partner.

However as women get older these fears fade. While half of women can name up to 20 people they class as close friends and acquaintances, they admit to being in touch with fewer than five regularly and only between one and three would be deemed best friends.

Sadly over 10 per cent say they have no one they would regard as a friend. The thing even a close friend is least likely to get away with is kissing your partner.

Eight per cent would allow even a pal of a decade to do that.

Surprisingly best friends come third, after partner and mother, as the person to turn to when