Anything I say about women, I try to make sure that at least five or six friends of mine are going through a similar situation. That way I'm not picking on my wife.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn't have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.
I've stayed good friends with most of my girlfriends.
The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.
I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.
I tend to pick on the people I'm closest with because I know they know it's not personal.
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.
I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
I have a very small group of friends that I've had - the three of them - for the majority of my life.