It’s inviting mental chaos to be scared of the boys. And if you’re going to be a doormat, you can expect to get stepped on. So gird your mental loins and scare them back. 
Or you can crack open a cold one with them. 
My mom often thought she had 4 boys instead of 3 because I was such a tomboy, had to be to survive.
The boys never scared me, but those backbiting bee atch girls sure did. Glad I never had a sister.
I’m just the opposite. I don’t know what I’d do without my sister and the next door girl friend I grew up with. I was afraid to be hones with the boys. I felt apologetic about hating them.
It’s hard to like what you don’t know.
I don’t think we as children understand that what you feeling is a natural response to the environment we’re stuck in. It’s pure emotion based on what we know at that time, how can you have known any different?
You shouldn’t feel you did anything wrong for what you felt as a child.
I think being phony is worse than being rejected.
Boys brains work very differently than girls, it’s just the way we’re hard wired I guess.
Girls tend to way over think things, boys seem to take things at face value.
@PinCushion, do you mean phony as in pretending to be tough or the boys rejected you?
I mean phony in the way of “I’m just putting up with you, not because I want you. But I’ll pretend to want you…”
Whaa?
You no love me anymore?
Ok, I accept I’m not wanted.
And there we have it folks, a shining example of Sz, Sza, all twisted in it’s glory to no one in their right mind. Step away from the rubble folks, nothing left here to see.