However, cautions Franco, it's important to understand people's different levels of comfort when it comes to affection. Maybe one of your friends, for example, hates hugs but loves compliments.

Friends will just know what I need and if they don’t, they’re a bad friend: Friends, ... They are blanket statements. No relationship will ever adhere perfectly to them.

But, to me, the best recent statement on female friendship, or, to be more precise, the many stereotypes around female friendship, comes from President Donald Trump.