<p>She watches your stories within seconds of posting. She tracks your location and demands to know why you didn’t text back immediately. She calls it “protective. She says she’s just “loyal.”&nbsp;But your nervous system knows the truth. This isn’t friendship, it’s surveillance.</p><br><p>Female friendship in its shadow form looks a lot like demonic possession. It’s an unconscious binding spell cast by a woman who refuses to inhabit her own existence, so she decides to consume yours instead. She needs you to remain frozen in time, predictable, and small so that she can feel safe.</p><br><p>In this episode, we’re ripping the veneer off the "Bestie" industrial complex. We’ll look at the physics of why women destroy each other, the zombie dynamic of forcing connection where there is only resentment, and the refusal to eat a slice of Saturn and grow the f*ck up.</p><br><p><strong>RESOURCES:</strong></p><br><p>* Click <a href="https://backfromtheborderline.substack.com/p/girl-on-girl" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> to read the original Substack post that inspired this episode</p><p>* Click <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/17297/linda-schierse-leonard/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> to check out books by Linda Schierse Leonard and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Books-Marion-Woodman/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AMarion%2BWoodman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> for some by Marion Woodman</p><br><p><strong><em>* Join the MOODS waitlist at </em></strong><a href="https://www.moods.world/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>moods.world</em></strong></a><strong><em> *</em></strong></p><br><p><strong>UNLOCK BONUS EPISODES, VOICE NOTES &amp; THE FULL ARCHIVE: </strong>Join the BFTB&nbsp;Patreon community and become a <strong>Premium Submarine</strong>, where you’ll unlock <strong>hundreds of hours of paywalled content</strong> I’ve been building since 2021. <strong> </strong>Visit<a href="http://backfromtheborderline.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> backfromtheborderline.com</strong></a><strong> </strong>for free resources, updates, and everything else I offer. Or go straight to<a href="http://patreon.com/backfromtheborderline" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> patreon.com/backfromtheborderline</strong></a><strong> </strong>to<strong> join now.</strong></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>