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Technically I used 4 colors lol because I used 2 shades of each color, but you get the point.

I never tried a super limited palette like this, so I figured it’d be fun to give it a go instead of using a variety of colors. It was definitely challenging in its own way, but I really loved not having to think about which colors to use. I just rotated my 4 markers and that was it! Overall happy with how these turned out :)

Flair says no advice wanted but I’m okay with advice if anyone has anything helpful to say.

Basically I just feel embarrassed about not really having many female friendships. I feel like there is such a stigma towards women who are “male-centered” and often I feel like I am being targeted, but the truth is I just love being with my boyfriend. He is the most amazing person I’ve ever met and he’s the only person I’ve ever felt I could be my truest self around. My social battery is nonexistent with him. He really just feels like home. But I always see/hear about women who bash others for spending so much time with their boyfriend, but I’m really only spending so much time with him because he is my home girl lmfao, and frankly I don’t have many other people to hang out with besides him.

I had a group of girl friends in college but that all fell apart around junior-senior year. I had outgrown them, and I’ve never been one to force friendships just for the sake of having friends. I’ve cut off plenty of friendships in the past for being toxic or simply because we weren’t aligned anymore.. I’m just not a performative person, and I don’t want to keep fake friendships.

So naturally this has led to me not having many girl friends in my current day to day life.. I just saw an Instagram post about how it’s not a red flag to not have any friends, and I hope that’s true. I would make time for friendships outside of my boyfriend if I genuinely had them.

I will say I have a best friend that I do hang out w every now and then, and we always have fun times together. But i’ve noticed she never really initiates plans with me.. I’m always the one to reach out and schedule the plans. I haven’t done that in a while, hence we haven’t seen each other in a while. Wish she would reciprocate the energy more often.

Not sure if anyone else feels this way or has the same experience. It’s also hard to make friends post-grad because people treat friendships with coworkers so surface level. And one of the girls I work with has a huge group of girl friends and is basically a certified man hater, and it makes me feel so insecure telling her that all I did was spend my weekend with my boyfriend (basically my only friend).

So yeah I guess that’s all I really have to say about this. Hopefully one day I will find my girls. Worried I won’t have bridesmaids lmao