
I asked my happily married for over 40 years grandpa what his thoughts were on men having female friends & he told me in no uncertain terms that he would never spend time 1 on 1 with another woman. He said for what? There are women he & my grandma are friendly with but he doesn’t go see them without her. I think it depends on what YOU want. If you don’t feel comfortable then find someone you align with.
You shouldn’t *just* trust him, you should both make efforts to build that trust. If he hasn’t done anything to violate your trust then yeah, just work on it more yourself. He should also be helping with some level of reassurance bc usually people will want to be open about things in their lives with their partner lol
I think this just kind of proves it’s an outdated practice. Why would you want to take friends away from your partner? What if your partner was bi? Are they just not allowed to have any friends ever again? In my opinion, the only reason someone would be uncomfortable with their partner hanging out alone with friends that are of their attracted sex it’s bc you yourself can’t do that without thoughts of cheating/you want to sleep with one of your friends and are settling for your partner/etc etc.
Thank you for sharing. I don’t want to stop him from hangout out with us friends and it’s okay for him to have friends of the opposite sex, I just was simply asking how far is to far with a friend. I do not want to prevent him from hanging out with his female friends because he has many. I just wasn’t sure what was crossing the line or not.