Oestrogen‑DNA (The Animal Instinct of Friendship)

Oestrogen - DNA: How We Know Our People Before We Know Their Names.

We Don’t Just Meet Our People

We don’t just meet our people —

our person —

we don’t just click.

Before the words,

before the stories,

before the knowing,

our hormones connect,

our bodies recognise,

our instincts lean in.

I’m not a scientist,

so let’s call it

oestrogen DNA —

the animal code

that hums beneath the skin.

We know our people

the way animals know their pack —

not by words,

not by action,

but by something older,

something cellular.

Friendship is the strongest love we ever have —

the one we work at,

the one with the most give and take,

the one we can turn up for

or be silent for,

and still be held.

It’s instinct.

It’s recognition.

It’s tribe.

And when it hits,

I see red —

the colour of certainty,

the colour of knowing,

the colour of home.