What’s the boldest way another woman had your back?
September 16, 2025
What’s the boldest way another woman had your back?
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A woman told her male friend to stop talking about intimate topics while he was friends with her and had a gf at the same time. She said it isn’t fair to the gf. He felt threatened and walked out on what was a deep and amazing friendship.
She felt miserable and lost her closest friend because of it. It hurt her more because he didn’t do anything to fix the situation. He left her without closure and happily moved on with the gf.
The woman told the gf’s friend about it to share her grief. That friend badmouthed and twisted the woman’s words to both the gf and the male friend, forever keeping the woman and the male friend apart.
That woman still hopes for closure one day. It breaks her heart to know she was so easily disposed by everyone she considered to be a good friend.
That woman is me.
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My best friend and I went to Chicago for my birthday one year. We were having a great time when a guy friend from college messaged me that he was also in Chicago for work. We all decided to have drinks and dinner together that evening.
We barhopped and had a lot of fun. My best friend and I were pretty drunk by the end of the night when we went to drop off college friend at his hotel. He mentioned that he had some cupcakes for my birthday up in his room. So the three of us went up together. Best friend went to the bathroom. College friend then tried to attack me by forcibly trying to kiss me and hold me to him. I was telling him no the whole time and trying to get away from him. Best friend got out of the bathroom, saw what was happening and tore him off me. (I’m 5’1, she’s 5’10, and he was around 6’)
I don’t really remember what happened next but best friend and I were in a cab on our way back to our Airbnb. I’m so grateful for her and love her so much. College friend is no longer a friend and has tried to apologize to me countless times and I ended up blocking him.
My best friend found a new house & moved in with me in the space of 3 weeks when I was diagnosed with cancer.
Multiple female friends have sat with me through heavy medical appointments & sessions of chemotherapy – ensuring I am never alone.
Another of my best friends comforted & protected me during a panic attack brought on by a former friend bullying me. She also ensured that person was removed from my space.
My friends staged a kind but firm intervention when they saw me getting caught up in a toxic situationship.
My sister’s have been my closest & most constant companions through my life, and we collectively have had each other’s backs through an abusive upbringing & subsequent relationships in adulthood.
And the list goes on… women having the backs of women make my world go around <3
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One night out, a drunk guy wouldn’t leave me alone. My friend literally stepped between us, stared him down, and said she’s with me. He backed off instantly. Felt like having a personal bodyguard lol.
I was on the way home at like 5-6am in the morning from a club by myself. At some point some man sat next to me and then tried to talk to me, said hi but was kinda creepy. Two girls opposite me were having none of it and one of them started shouting at him to get lost and that I clearly don’t want to talk to him. They called him out in front of the whole train and said he was looking at me for a while before coming to say hi. And that if I wanted to talk to him, I would. He got embarrassed and got off at the next stop haha. I thought it was really sweet of these girls! Especially so early in the morning on a weekend after partying.
I was at a show once, and a guy kept talking to me and making me somewhat uncomfortable. I hopped into the mosh pit, and came out somewhere else, figuring he would get the hint.
He came over to find me immediately and was like “don’t you want to talk to me? Why would you want to avoid me?”
And I was so caught off guard. I fumbled through “no, I don’t want to talk to you. It’s weird for you to follow me and ask that, and it makes me even more uncomfortable”.
And then I feel someone’s hands on my shoulders, and a woman I’ve never met before moves me to the side of her and steps in between me and him.
“You don’t get to talk to her anymore!!” I’ve never felt so protected.
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A woman told her male friend to stop talking about intimate topics while he was friends with her and had a gf at the same time. She said it isn’t fair to the gf. He felt threatened and walked out on what was a deep and amazing friendship.
She felt miserable and lost her closest friend because of it. It hurt her more because he didn’t do anything to fix the situation. He left her without closure and happily moved on with the gf.
The woman told the gf’s friend about it to share her grief. That friend badmouthed and twisted the woman’s words to both the gf and the male friend, forever keeping the woman and the male friend apart.
That woman still hopes for closure one day. It breaks her heart to know she was so easily disposed by everyone she considered to be a good friend.
That woman is me.
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My best friend and I went to Chicago for my birthday one year. We were having a great time when a guy friend from college messaged me that he was also in Chicago for work. We all decided to have drinks and dinner together that evening.
We barhopped and had a lot of fun. My best friend and I were pretty drunk by the end of the night when we went to drop off college friend at his hotel. He mentioned that he had some cupcakes for my birthday up in his room. So the three of us went up together. Best friend went to the bathroom. College friend then tried to attack me by forcibly trying to kiss me and hold me to him. I was telling him no the whole time and trying to get away from him. Best friend got out of the bathroom, saw what was happening and tore him off me. (I’m 5’1, she’s 5’10, and he was around 6’)
I don’t really remember what happened next but best friend and I were in a cab on our way back to our Airbnb. I’m so grateful for her and love her so much. College friend is no longer a friend and has tried to apologize to me countless times and I ended up blocking him.
My best friend found a new house & moved in with me in the space of 3 weeks when I was diagnosed with cancer.
Multiple female friends have sat with me through heavy medical appointments & sessions of chemotherapy – ensuring I am never alone.
Another of my best friends comforted & protected me during a panic attack brought on by a former friend bullying me. She also ensured that person was removed from my space.
My friends staged a kind but firm intervention when they saw me getting caught up in a toxic situationship.
My sister’s have been my closest & most constant companions through my life, and we collectively have had each other’s backs through an abusive upbringing & subsequent relationships in adulthood.
And the list goes on… women having the backs of women make my world go around <3
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One night out, a drunk guy wouldn’t leave me alone. My friend literally stepped between us, stared him down, and said she’s with me. He backed off instantly. Felt like having a personal bodyguard lol.
I was on the way home at like 5-6am in the morning from a club by myself. At some point some man sat next to me and then tried to talk to me, said hi but was kinda creepy. Two girls opposite me were having none of it and one of them started shouting at him to get lost and that I clearly don’t want to talk to him. They called him out in front of the whole train and said he was looking at me for a while before coming to say hi. And that if I wanted to talk to him, I would. He got embarrassed and got off at the next stop haha. I thought it was really sweet of these girls! Especially so early in the morning on a weekend after partying.
I was at a show once, and a guy kept talking to me and making me somewhat uncomfortable. I hopped into the mosh pit, and came out somewhere else, figuring he would get the hint.
He came over to find me immediately and was like “don’t you want to talk to me? Why would you want to avoid me?”
And I was so caught off guard. I fumbled through “no, I don’t want to talk to you. It’s weird for you to follow me and ask that, and it makes me even more uncomfortable”.
And then I feel someone’s hands on my shoulders, and a woman I’ve never met before moves me to the side of her and steps in between me and him.
“You don’t get to talk to her anymore!!” I’ve never felt so protected.