MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend by Rachel Bertsche
MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend by Rachel Bertsche
This book had some extreme moments at times but being a woman who had just moved to a big city where none of my close friends actually lived besides my boyfriend and family, this author was telling my story too.
I realized that I too was beginning to treat my boyfriend like a girl friend. Telling him almost every moment about my day, about inane thoughts that came to my mind. And although he has always loved me and my frantic brain, he could only understand so much of why certain things were important to me. On a fundamental level guys and girls are just different.
I loved how this author jumped into all the different situations, as awkward as they may have been, to open herself up more and to find more people who she could hang out with. There were funny mishaps and ridiculous conversations that everyone runs into when trying to meet new people. It also showed the vulnerability and nervousness of opening yourself up and really hoping to meet a new friend.
From this book I also learned about GirlfriendCircles and found my current best friend. I of course had her read this book and she agreed on every point. And I also shared it with my book club, a group of women who have all transplanted themselves to New York City and thus all related as well. This book is real and funny and I couldn't recommend it enough.
Synopsis: When Rachel Bertsche first moves to Chicago, she’s thrilled to finally share a zip code with her boyfriend. But shortly after getting married, she realizes that her new life is missing one thing: friends. Sure, she has plenty of BFFs—in New York and San Francisco and Boston and Washington, D.C. Still, in her adopted hometown, there’s no one to call at the last minute for girl talk over brunch or a reality-TV marathon over a bottle of wine. Taking matters into her own hands, Bertsche develops a plan: Meeting people everywhere from improv class to friend rental websites, she'll go on fifty-two friend-dates, one per week for a year, in hopes of meeting her new Best Friend Forever.