Best friends

Yesterday, I had dinner with a very good friend of mine. We went through all the stages of a normal dinner, i.e light conversation, then gossiping moving on to funny stories, heart to heart conversation, etc....
But on the way home, it just hit me, all these conversations that I had shared with her, somehow sounded different when shared with my husband. Men seem to react completely differently, first they never say the right thing, secondly they half understand what we say and thirdly they are probably not interested in what we have to say unless it involves sex, finance or sports..(probably in this order too)
I am starting to think that girlfriends are as much needed as husbands are, in fact they complete each other. Girlfriends take away the burden of shopping which husbands clearly hates, they also also enjoy gossiping, they don't mind if we moan, they are a good shoulder to cry on, they happily watch a chick movie without falling asleep, they support you in the gym club and quite frankly have more time to spare.
Our husbands should be grateful they exist as it seems girlfriends are prepared to step into our husbands shoes when they can't be bothered.
So it might be worth recognising the importance of our girlfriends and let them know that we value them....