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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmmm I have a similar relationship with our male neighbor.   We also share a common interest that neither of our spouses do so we've done things surrounding that together, sometimes with our sons who are starting to share the interest too.  Nothing else is going on.   There is no emotional affair, there is no desire to sleep with him.   We may sit next to each other but we don't converse with just each other.   I don't know if DH has ever read the texts.  If he has, I'm fine with it.   They don't vary much from the texts I have with other people with that interest.

I know people won't believe me, I just don't see him that way.   [/quote]

I totally agree.  I used to have a male friend who I did lots of things with, texted, talked on the phone, visited him at his house, worked with him, played on a softball team with him, got rides with him or him with me, I could go on and on.  We were both married and we never crossed any lines including no flirting.  I found him attractive and guess he probably did me too but neither of us was interested in blowing up our marriages so we were just friends.  [b]If my husband had questioned this relationship I would have been pretty upset.[/b][/quote]

I'm similarly a woman with male friends, but if my husband questioned any of those relationships (depending on how he did it), I would respond kindly and acknowledge his feelings. I would be upset if he didn't believe me that nothing was going on, but I wouldn't be a jerk about it and ignore his perceptions or his feelings or how he thought it looked. I wouldn't just give up the relationship with my friend, but I think it's unkind to say that you would be upset if your husband came to you and said he was bothered by it. [/quote]

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