Anonymous wrote:OP, woman here—tell your girlfriend ASAP. Enlist her as your partner in putting the brakes on becoming any more entangled with this couple. You don't want to be trying to explain this to her when (not if) this blows up. I guarantee you will win big points by getting in front of this with her. Your friend's wife is not going to back down. She's not thinking straight and it sounds like alcohol may be an issue as well.
OP, listen to the post above. This PP is right. Get out ahead of this now with your girlfriend, and at the same time, you need to be done with this other couple.
I'm also surprised it took until the above post for someone to point out what keeps coming up in your posts: Alcohol.
The first time the wife hit on you, she was drunk or getting there.
The second time she'd also been drinking a while before she touched you.
You say that her husband, your so-called "friend," can admittedly be a d*ck when drinking.
Add it up, OP. These are not friends with whom you can really drink enjoyably like an adult -- either of them. His inner jerk comes out when he's drunk and her insecurities and stupid choices come out when she's drunk. And it doesn't sound like she needs to drink a lot to get loose enough to act out. As another PP said, you need to say no to invitations from them and not issue any; the fact that the guy thinks being "couple friends" is the next step means it's time to be far too busy to see them any more.
But there's one other issue here: "I was debating telling [girlfriend] this weekend after a couple of drinks and tell her to keep it to herself. I am just worried she won't and will either tell him, or tell her to back off."
So you were going to wait until after a few drinks to tell your GF-- so you would find it easier to do? Or so she would have a few drinks in her and somehow that would mean she'd take it better? What's with needing a few drinks (in either or both of you) to make this conversation happen? That's... I'm not sure what. It does sound a bit too reliant on getting loosened up before having a talk that could be pretty important.
And you've mentioned twice now that your GF might confront the wife and/or tell the guy though you don't want that. So your GF would not respect your wishes if you told her all, in the interest of a really honest relationship, and then asked her directly, "I am asking you not to say anything to either of them because it will only cause drama and my friendship with them is over anyway"--? If GF is so invested in seeing herself as direct and "honest" that she would hear how this all worried and upset you, and she then would turn around and against your request, blather it to the other couple and tell them off -- you might just have a GF issue as well as a friend issue.