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My girlfriend always struggles to make female friends, women seem to make snide comments have you experienced this?

I've always found this to be quite odd, she's is absolutely gorgeous in my eyes but very shy.

She's kind and struggles with her confidence but pushes on anyways.

I always tell her she is probably the nicest person I've ever met.

As a consequence she doesn't always see when someone doesn't have her best interest at heart.

My only criticism is when she feels slighted she can be defensive and doesn't address the issue head on.

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perceptivei · 36-40, F

I'm simply not convinced. Men immediately want to say jealousy/insecuriy is the underlying cause, but I have a hard time believing that. Pretty girls have other pretty friends all the time. And, if the girl is just average, then there's nothing to be jealous about. It just doesn't always add up to me (the jealousy excuse), and I'm a woman who has trouble making friends with the same sex as well.

Davemcdave · 46-50, M

@perceptivei she's very independent. Highly capable. I personally can't see any faults which is why I will do my best to never let her go...

If I'm honest this has made her very cautious about approaching others.

Where we're trying for a baby she's not as energetic as she once was due to the hormones, but it's been a good thing for her as she's made assessments on friendships that were negative.

She broke friends with one person because she always made her feel inadequate. Her hair was never curled right, her make up was never enough, her outfit was always missing something. I mentioned not being a fan of the friends fairly early on as she always put my girlfriend down. She is asian and the guys used to go crazy for her, young beyond her years and always very dolled up, not for me really. But she played on that, I remember an evening out where she routinely asked my girlfriend to take her photograph, but would take any of her or us, the few she did she cut my head off, or it was blurry.

I would say jealous.

She had the looks but my girlfriend has the full package.