This article struck me because I am 25 and have 1 female friend in a neighboring state
I visit every so often. In my home state my only friends outside of my partner is a 50 something yr old woman. I find most friendships distract me due to lack of shared interests. Im a highly sensitive person, so with this the indirect communication as explained earlier are a common thing I run into -is quite the turn off.
I also ran into the envy of females often. Since my life is "ideal" to some women -which Id beg to differ. This creates an unfriendly energy directed towards me, so this pushes me to create distance. As Ive told my better half, Id love a female to be close to -sisterly like, which almost seems impossible..