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wow,im dating a girl from another race......and bb was like my role model.....so...i wanna see how this turns out
What race is she and what race are you? Don't leave us hanging. Leave the PC crap at the door.switch said:wow,im dating a girl from another race......and bb was like my role model.....so...i wanna see how this turns out
Allowing your wife to spend time with some guy alone? Hell to the no. I let her go out with her girlfriends whenever she wants. The most that will happen is some boyfriend of one of her friends comes along, or some beta just tagging along for their amusement. Doesn't bother me at all. I could go to all of these gatherings but I usually am working or just don't feel like going.zekko said:I think that having opposite sex friends while married is a slippery slope. I mean I have reasonable boundaries, but once you establish that it is okay to hang out with these "friends" solo, it can cause problem, and can lay the groundwork for cheating.
Sure, maybe this "friend" is platonic, and maybe the next ten will be too. But what happens someone wants to hang with you (or your spouse) that you (or she) is strongly attracted to? It's already been established that it's okay to go spend time alone with them. It's asking for trouble IMO.
I concur.LiveFreeX said:That is bvllsh1t behavior on your part, low class and incredibly disrespectful, I wouldn't put it past her to start banging her tennis coach now and I wouldn't blame her at all. You've really dropped the ball dude, like really.
Well said sir.taiyuu_otoko said:I concur.
Girls get just as upset, if not more, when her guy gets "emotionally" involved with another girl, just as a guy would flip if his girl was taking a high hard one from another guy.
Saying that "she's got male friends, so I can have female friends" doesn't hold water in a marriage.
People who value their marriages, and want them to last, tend to stay away from slippery slopes and situations that cause emotional stress to their partners.
Saying you're freedom is more important to you than her feelings sounds like maybe you didn't get into this union with eyes wide open.
Here's a potentially offensive question:
Would you have gotten married had you NOT had a kid together?
Are you sure?
My opinion: The ONLY way to solve this is go no contact with the other woman.
For good.
You are just wasting your time. Inviting her and her BF over won't fix your wife's insecurity or prove anything. I have a friend who's sister's husband was having an affair with her friend. They all used to hang out. The sister, her husband, her friend and her friend's husband. Being around all them they seemed like a happy group.backbreaker said:I mean, we are a pretty normal couple. she's quite headstrong so when she doesn't like something she lets me know. But at the end of the day she'll live.
When she gets back to town i'm going to invite her and her BF over for dinner
I have a pretty good feeling that after Christmas my wife will be just fine lol.
my wife is british she's not from here.jafyk said:You are just wasting your time. Inviting her and her BF over won't fix your wife's insecurity or prove anything. I have a friend who's sister's husband was having an affair with her friend. They all used to hang out. The sister, her husband, her friend and her friend's husband. Being around all them they seemed like a happy group.
The way I see it your wife seems like the typical insecure American woman whose value seems to come from her relationship with her husband. I think your wife is going to end up losing you because insecurity is not an attractive trait. Besides how long is a guy going to keep reassuring an irrational woman.
Honestly, I think your wife's major complaint is that she feels left out. It doesn't have much to do with trusting you. A lot of times the mundane conversations one has with friends is what the wife wants to have with you to still feel like she's involved in the game. It's like you are confiding in her about things and that makes her feels valued. In your case it seems your lady friend is playing that role and she's feeling left out. So, that leads me to think you both don't talk much about certain kinds of things or she's not a very interesting person to be bothered by your one friend.
From your situation. I understand why men keep things (including female friends) from their wives/girls, because of all the drama they make up in their head, even where there's none. You are just gonna have to let this girl go and find ways to make new guy friends. If you have female friends it would make sense for them to be hi/chit-chat at the location type friends as opposed to people whose contact info you have/exchange gifts with. I'm fairly confident you can interact with your lady friend without anything happening but you would do so with the risk of your wife leaving you. I know at the same time if you let this girl go who is more interesting than your wife you will be feeling miserable, bored and resent your wife for putting you in that situation.
Bottomline you are not wrong for wanting some level of freedom and your wife is not wrong for wanting a level of connection. It just has to be a healthy balance on both sides. Which ever sides pushes more ends up causing the other to resent them. Personally, if your wife is not ok with you having a friend of the opposite sex. She should have male friends either. Anything other than that is just control issues. Being in a marriage is not a license to become the average "yes dear domesticated male". Each time I see guys like that it just makes me wanna throw up. I see so many unmarried men so uncomfortable and trying to fake happiness in front of strangers for their insatiable wives. Ugh!
Made up of all hot chicks, no doubtbackbreaker said:I just wnat to build my own network of friends
It's not like I go to a 9 to 5 and I have all these office guy friends
I thought you said that you owned the business? So its not a chick, its a client and now you are mixing biz with pleasure. So which is it biz or pleasure?I'm just befriending this chick at work and trying to be cute on the sly
The avg person on this forum cannot possibly contemplate how much I don't get out the house.
Sounds like there is something wrong with YOU. I have ONLY guy friends and I have ALOT of them, I don't see the point in hanging around with a woman unless I intend to fvck her, nothing good can come of it. You don't sound like the kind of person a guy would want to have around as a friend. If you treat your own family with disrespect, I bet you don't fair very well around friends either.I'd kill to have guy friends. But It never works.