Scary advice column
I just read this scary advice column talking about how it's totally normal to be afraid if your spouse has opposite-sex friends at work or through other contacts because they're all a "threat" to the marriage. All the comments seemed to think it was totally normal and that it was impossible to have friends of the opposite sex. I was really shocked. I have married male friends and I am certainly not hoping to start some sort of affair with them.
Sometimes it's just easier to talk about certain topics with people of the opposite sex. Like if I want to complain about the horribleness of wedding/baby showers, men will always get it. I'm not really a girly girl so hanging out with big groups of women is usually torture for me. I don't understand why people can't respect that friendships come from interests, not from the fact that you're both of the same sex.
Sometimes it's just easier to talk about certain topics with people of the opposite sex. Like if I want to complain about the horribleness of wedding/baby showers, men will always get it. I'm not really a girly girl so hanging out with big groups of women is usually torture for me. I don't understand why people can't respect that friendships come from interests, not from the fact that you're both of the same sex.