Lonely Women in a Friendship Club

Unattached women in their fifties and sixties who are lonely and in search of friendship tend to gravitate towards social clubs, set up to introduce people to potential friends. Such clubs require of their members social skills which are, unfortunately, often lacking. The women described here operate, furthermore, with concepts of friendship which make the establishment and maintenance of satisfactory relationships difficult. Friendship clubs, it appears, do not fulfil their promise; and women in search of friendship need help in developing more realistic attitudes to personal relationships.