When friendships such as these are intercepted at the point of going active/doing things together, there is generally no coming back. The friendship is more often ended apart rather than when together, for when together there may only exist perfection. In the unlikely event that things should become active, then the friendship, in its most absolute sense, is ended in that moment that the mans age is realised. The friendships at there very best tend to be dismantling of programming for only a brief time.
It is likely, though probably quite difficult to demonstrate, that many male suicides are provoked, at least in part, by this totally ruthless treatment of friendships, where the male is beyond the cut- off age. Beyond the almost inevitable denial, the loss to the female may be felt with the same gravity.
For many females the cut off age for their friendships seems to be set precisely the same as for their relationships, usually their age plus anywhere up to twelve years. I had over looked this group until now, but my more recent research is beginning to suggest, however alarming, that this group may actually make up the majority of young women. What I`m also learning is that words may be almost meaningless in my attempts of gathering information here, and quite possibly regarding the subject of relationships generally. If the cut off age for friendship is indeed the same as for `relationships`, that would seem to suggest to me that many young women may have incapacity for any great depth of friendship, in the absence of a `relationship`, with males of any age? Half baked friendships aside, they may fair little if any better in the friendship stakes than their male counterparts. No wonder then that they`ll almost invariably misconstrue any real depth of friendship at all, if it also turns out to be an issue as powerful as gender itself, and then put back to back with age discrimatory programming.