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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder how many of these people with marriage boundaries where they are forbidden from being alone with men, are also not allowed to drive?  Are you chaperoned? Do you have your own money?[/quote]

I'm not forbidden from hanging out with other men. I just have a lot of friends already- I'm not looking for new ones and I don't want to hang out with your husband, no matter how tremendous you think he is. Why that bothers you so much is fascinating to me. He couldn't make it in the workplace now he can't make it in the land of SAHP and it really seems to stick in your craw, huh? I succeeded in both arenas and  my husband didn't have to help me or shove other parents down my throat, so maybe we are just fundamentally different. [/quote]

On a related note what is this common refrain about not looking for any 'new friends'? Is there like a limit on your phone? I mean if you are free and they are free who doesn't like making a new friend? Unless they are selling you jewelry or what not, yeah that would be evil ;)[/quote]

I [i]am [/i]looking for new friends and I still wouldn't go out of my way to make friends with a man.[/quote]

That's too bad. You are missing out. I've had lots of good male friends in my life and those friendships have been just as valuable as my female friendships, albeit in a different way. [/quote]

Actually, all my friends have always been men.  I simply no longer feel that’s appropriate.[/quote]

I understand now why you are looking for new friends. I'm glad I didn't have to give up any of my friends when I got married. [/quote]

My male friends drifted away because they understand boundaries.  I'm still not sure why you insist no one can have any.[/quote]

My male friends drifted away in the same manner I guess- most of them - perhaps all of them- were work friends as I worked in a male dominated industry. When I left to raise my kids we kept in touch via Facebook or the occasional golf outing, but we don't meet up individually. My husband and I go out on weekends with our friends and their husbands all the time- but I don't get together with their husbands for lunch - call it the 50's of you like but when I've gotten together with a man alone it's been on the golf course or to talk business at lunch- not alone in their kitchen. Sorry mommy. Maybe you should wonder why people don't want to have your husband over? Could he be putting off a weird vibe? Could their husband not want him over? [/quote]

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