Anonymous
08/07/2016 13:28
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No.
Married men should not create new friendships with single females.
Cordial, polite surface relationships? Sure.
Friendships with regular contact? No.
Completely inappropriate.
I tend to agree, but....
My husband has a colleague at work with whom he works closely. They're friends. She and I are friends. She babysits our kid. I don't see harm in it.
I'm not sure why it is, but this would bother me.
She and I get together once a week. She doesn't get together with my husband outside of work unless we're doing couples things. She's a close friend with no kids and she adores our toddler!
And that would bother me. Maybe it's because I've heard too many stories of the "friend" who was "friends" with the wife too that became the OW that I'm suspicious. I'd also not be kay with a single woman who wasn't the nanny, relative, or longtime friend "adoring" my kid. That too me seems like she's trying to prove her mothering skills.
I'm probably paranoid.
Don't let my projections cast shadows on your relationship.
Anonymous
08/07/2016 13:16
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
I don't police who my husband is friends with. I know he loves me and I trust him. He's proven he is more than capable of maintaining boundaries with female friends when two of his friends were disrespectful of our relationship.
I wasted years of my life with a cheater in my early 20s. I spent so much energy trying to "keep him on the straight and narrow" to no avail. I learned the hard way that if a guy wants to cheat, he's going to cheat.
I wasted years of my life with a cheater in my early 20s. I spent so much energy trying to "keep him on the straight and narrow" to no avail. I learned the hard way that if a guy wants to cheat, he's going to cheat.
Anonymous
08/07/2016 13:12
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No.
Married men should not create new friendships with single females.
Cordial, polite surface relationships? Sure.
Friendships with regular contact? No.
Completely inappropriate.
I tend to agree, but....
My husband has a colleague at work with whom he works closely. They're friends. She and I are friends. She babysits our kid. I don't see harm in it.
I'm not sure why it is, but this would bother me.
She and I get together once a week. She doesn't get together with my husband outside of work unless we're doing couples things. She's a close friend with no kids and she adores our toddler!
Anonymous
08/07/2016 13:11
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
OP, take a look at this: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/90/534929.page#8388634
Anonymous
08/07/2016 13:10
Subject: Re:Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
I am married and I have single girl friends. We don't hang out one on one but we do go for drinks in groups with and without spouses.
Anonymous
08/07/2016 13:01
Subject: Re:Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
If you're grown and married you can have any friend you want. My husband can't. To each his own.
Anonymous
08/07/2016 12:48
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No.
Married men should not create new friendships with single females.
Cordial, polite surface relationships? Sure.
Friendships with regular contact? No.
Completely inappropriate.
I tend to agree, but....
My husband has a colleague at work with whom he works closely. They're friends. She and I are friends. She babysits our kid. I don't see harm in it.
I'm not sure why it is, but this would bother me.
Anonymous
08/07/2016 12:47
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
Anonymous wrote:Are you happy to include your wife in the friendship? When I was single I made "couple" friends with people I met at work.
I guess my standard is - are both halves of the couple in your cell phone? [/quote
Pretty much this.
Though I marvel at anyone who has time to make and maintain new friends post marriage and babies.
Anonymous
08/07/2016 12:40
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
Are you happy to include your wife in the friendship? When I was single I made "couple" friends with people I met at work.
I guess my standard is - are both halves of the couple in your cell phone?
I guess my standard is - are both halves of the couple in your cell phone?
Anonymous
08/07/2016 12:32
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
Only if they are hot and promiscuous.
Happy?
Happy?
Anonymous
08/07/2016 12:17
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
Anonymous wrote:No.
Married men should not create new friendships with single females.
Cordial, polite surface relationships? Sure.
Friendships with regular contact? No.
Completely inappropriate.
I tend to agree, but....
My husband has a colleague at work with whom he works closely. They're friends. She and I are friends. She babysits our kid. I don't see harm in it.
Anonymous
08/07/2016 12:14
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
No.
Married men should not create new friendships with single females.
Cordial, polite surface relationships? Sure.
Friendships with regular contact? No.
Completely inappropriate.
Married men should not create new friendships with single females.
Cordial, polite surface relationships? Sure.
Friendships with regular contact? No.
Completely inappropriate.
Anonymous
08/07/2016 12:03
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
So, you're a married man, you're thinking about an affair with a single coworker, and you want internet strangers to tell you that the first step towards an affair (supposed "friendship" with her) is actually OK because men and women should be allowed to be friends. Right?
Anonymous
08/07/2016 12:02
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
Are you 14 or something? What a weird perspective. Come answer your own question when you reach maturity.
Anonymous
08/07/2016 11:59
Subject: Are married men allowed to make new single female friends?
Before marriage is a different thing but after I think the door should be shut. My answer to this would be no. I think this could lead disaster.