10 More Things I've Learned From My Multi-Generational Woman Friends

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1. Women who have been married 50 years are still trying to figure out their husbands.

2. Women understand fat jeans. And skinny jeans.

3. As long as your mother is alive, you are her little girl.

4. The empty nest syndrome is real. PMS is real. Mid-life crisis is real. Postpartum depression is real. Menopause is real. Listening to women who have walked there is invaluable.

5. One more thing that is real. Forgiveness.

6. Women's lib has not been able to eliminate mommy guilt.

7. Burying a parent is difficult. It is a quadzillion billion times more difficult to bury a child. Or grandchild. 25 years later you might still cry when you recount the story.

8. White paint comes in many different shades. As do white shoes. Few guys understand this with the exception of the guy who works in the paint department at Home Depot.

9. Women feel compelled to tell a pregnant woman every childbirth horror story, but nobody feels compelled to tell a new bride their honeymoon horror stories.

10. The verse in Titus 2 about older women encouraging younger women is true. (And sometimes it's not age, but experience.) Some of the best advice I've gleaned about being a mom, wife, friend and cancer survivor I've learned from these women, not from attending a seminar.

Who can help me come up with another ten lessons?