Why Female prefer Female Friends over Male Friends at their mid 30's??

As I have reached my mid 30's now, something that I have discovered new about myself and, would like to share with you all.
To be very honest, I am not writing this only to share what I have discovered but also to get answers to some questions:

Q.NO. (1) Is it only me?
Q.NO. (2) What could be the reasons?

I am sure the answer should be 'NO' to my first question and if it is 'NO' for you AS WELL, I would love to hear your findings behind the change in preferences in the comment section below.

Let me get to the point and begin on what I have to share with all of  you here. Unlike before, I now like more to be accompanied by a female friend than a male friend. I find myself enjoying and comfortable with my female friends.
From school days to college days to my workplace, everywhere, before today, I was always in a group of male friends. If I had four good friends, out of them only one was a female friend and the rest of the three were male. That has always been the case
Wait, before it comes to your mind, well I am not homosexual 😆. I am talking about the pure platonic relationship here.
Jokes apart, well there could be various reasons for this transformation. And If I have to jot down some in points, they could be as follows:-

1) Maybe, because I find all the males around me to pull me back on whatever I want to do.
2) Could be that I have met some excellent female friends which I had never come across before in the previous phases of my life
3) Also could be, because today I am connected to many successful women either at a virtual or personal level who inspires me in many ways.
4) Maybe, I can now (after marriage and being a mother of four years old) better understand and relate to the journey of women and now have developed more respect for them.

There could be other reasons too and I am still not sure what precisely is it in my case. I keep on talking to myself and try to find the answer to this but the more I think the more reasons I find and the deeper I dive into it I get more and more into it.

So today thought of letting it all out from my mind by penning it down and sharing with all of you here.

I Would love to hear from you all in the comment section If you also felt the same at some stage of your life? So that it is easy to relate to it and can find my answers too.

Thank you so much for sparing your precious time to read and comment.