Girlfriends are the new husbands

« I’ve learned a lot about the nature of adult relationships from this one. For one thing, I have been disabused of the notion that no man I meet at this stage of my life will ever be able to understand me without having known me for years. It took Sara about three weeks to figure it all out. It was easy, how quickly we explained and understood each other’s full and meticulously drawn-out histories. »

By Rebecca Traister in Salon.