And since I am a guy

Just using your post as a springboard to get all 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

but I wonder how much of the idea of "women's friendships decay, men's friendships can pick up exactly where they left off" is based on reality.... And how much of it is just a stereotype based on social norms that are no longer true. Y'know, like the idea that "women have naturally better emotional intelligence" (the reality is that most young boys were and on some level still are discouraged from engaging with emotions in general, and it's hard to get good at something with no practice)

I can't even cite personal anecdotal experience as an argument for or against because my friendship group is mostly queer dudes with the occasional transgender chick or enby person.