"Well if you are one of the 80% of women who believes in synchronicity – brace yourself. It isn’t a thing. Since McClintock’s study there has been enough research with negative results to move menstrual synchronicity into urban mythology. Many studies have tried to replicate McClintock’s findings – some have succeeded, but more have not."
I have had multiple groups of friends that joked about our cycles lining up, and it now occurs to me that we were really just noticing the order of our periods - and that, if you have something that happens once a month for several days and you have a lot of people with periods hanging out together and discussing it, eventually you are going to find yourself in a group with similar "times of the month" and then you will rely on each other for emergency period supplies and bond over it. Actually, I wonder if people with periods around the same time of the month are more likely to become friends, just because we're going to like be in the bathroom more together and are more likely to have that moment where you completely save someone's day with a pad and a motrin.
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