Scary advice column

[queencruella]

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

Comments

[joyfulfeather]

Ugh. I work in a male-dominated field -- as in, of a section of at least twenty, there are three full-time women, and neither of the others work in my building. What am I supposed to do, go wandering around the building looking for women to talk to since I'm clearly not allowed to befriend the men I work with? Right. Have these people heard of trust in a relationship?

[queencruella]

If a married man cheats with his single female coworker, he's either an asshole who doesn't take his marriage seriously or the marriage was already on the rocks to start with. A certain level of socializing is required in the workplace if you want to be successful and get promoted. In male-dominated fields it can already be hard enough if they are doing stereotypical male things I can't do- like play golf- so isolating myself even more is going to assure I don't get promoted.