Friendship Green Flags 👩‍🤝‍👩🟢

We're all experts at spotting relationship red flags. But how often do we talk about friendship green flags?

I think one of the most underrated experiences in life is finding friends you can stop performing around. Ones you don't need a social battery to be around.

With them, you don't have to carefully craft the "I'm doing good!" text when you're not. You can show up tired, anxious, distracted, excited, dramatic, quiet, loud or completely unsure of what you're doing with your life. And somehow none of it changes how they see you.

As women, I think many of us grow up learning how to be agreeable. To be easy to love, to check in first, avoid being "too much," and make sure everyone around us is comfortable. Sometimes, without even realising it, we carry that into our friendships too.

But the friendships that stay with you aren't usually the ones built on perfection. They're built on relief.

Relief that you don't have to explain why you've gone quiet for a week. Relief that your successes will be met with genuine excitement instead of comparison. Relief that disagreement doesn't automatically mean distance.

They're the friends who know your favourite colour and your biggest fears. The ones who point out your mistakes, but never make you feel small.

Maybe that's what a healthy friendship really looks like.

Not constantly proving that you're worth keeping around.
Just knowing that you already are.

What's one thing a friend has done that made you feel completely accepted for who you are? Comment below! 💌👩‍🤝‍👩