There is something about the quiet of the night and uninterrupted time together that helps women connect.
For a group of sixth-grade girls growing up in Chicago, it was the best kind of summer night.
When the era of the socially acceptable sleepover ends, women, in particular, lose out on something important. Among female friends, Tannen says, “closeness” is often created and measured by the “exchange of information”: The more personal stories women share with each other, the closer they feel. And there is no better setting for information exchange than a sleepover.
“At first it was just the regular catch-up conversations: ‘What’s going on at your job? Are you enjoying who you’re seeing at the moment?’ But then the conversation moved beyond that,” said Smith. Several people talked openly about their struggles with mental health, Smith wrote in Grazia; one woman spoke about the hidden challenges of a job everyone had assumed was perfect.The routine of a slumber party can be powerful, too.
“I think there is something special about that casual sleepover with someone, or a few people, who you see regularly,” Smith says.
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