Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. If your husband's business partner were a man, this would be considered normal bonding behavior. Nobody would bat an eyelash. It would be a pity to obstruct a business relationship only because the business partners are different genders.

I am a woman, and have experienced plenty of drawbacks in my professional life because male bosses and mentors didn't consider it appropriate to behave toward me the same way as toward my male colleagues.

This OP apparently was ID'd by the site moderator as the same OP of a more recent thread. She got proof that her DH and the business partner have been having an affair. I think that thread might have been deleted but it went on for many, many pages recently. So while it's absolutely true that women and men can be excellent and completely platonic professional colleagues, it seems that in this case, the OP's instinct was right, and her DH was screwing his younger female businss partner.

Which is utterly sickening on many levels, one of which is: It only adds fuel to the damaging stereotype that "men and women can't work together, because, sex."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. If your husband's business partner were a man, this would be considered normal bonding behavior. Nobody would bat an eyelash. It would be a pity to obstruct a business relationship only because the business partners are different genders.

I am a woman, and have experienced plenty of drawbacks in my professional life because male bosses and mentors didn't consider it appropriate to behave toward me the same way as toward my male colleagues.

This OP apparently was ID'd by the site moderator as the same OP of a more recent thread. She got proof that her DH and the business partner have been having an affair. I think that thread might have been deleted but it went on for many, many pages recently. So while it's absolutely true that women and men can be excellent and completely platonic professional colleagues, it seems that in this case, the OP's instinct was right, and her DH was screwing his younger female businss partner.

Which is utterly sickening on many levels, one of which is: It only adds fuel to the damaging stereotype that "men and women can't work together, because, sex."

Anonymous wrote:NP. If your husband's business partner were a man, this would be considered normal bonding behavior. Nobody would bat an eyelash. It would be a pity to obstruct a business relationship only because the business partners are different genders.

I am a woman, and have experienced plenty of drawbacks in my professional life because male bosses and mentors didn't consider it appropriate to behave toward me the same way as toward my male colleagues.

Anonymous wrote:NP. If your husband's business partner were a man, this would be considered normal bonding behavior. Nobody would bat an eyelash. It would be a pity to obstruct a business relationship only because the business partners are different genders.

I am a woman, and have experienced plenty of drawbacks in my professional life because male bosses and mentors didn't consider it appropriate to behave toward me the same way as toward my male colleagues.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Final question—would you feel this way if it was a male partner?

NP, late to the party. You (and others) made this point several times, but the fact is: It WOULDN'T happen if the partner were male. Two straight dudes would not be giggling on the phone about personal matters all hours of the day. His desire to entertain this crap is entirely because he gets a titillating ego boost from talking to a mid-20s woman.