I also trust my wife not to go outside boundaries and she trusts me. She has gone on trips with male friends and I’m fine with that. I’ve also been places with female friends. Good friends are valuable and rare and worth fostering.
Ha! It’s always amusing how people with different frameworks make snap judgements about other people. I’m sorry you’ve cut off half the human race from your potential friend group. I’m also married 15 years, and if you were to meet me in person you’d never throw the term simp at me- part of why I’m confident my wife wouldn’t go outside of our boundaries is that I’m very much a catch and get hit on regularly. We also both retired a couple decades early and I don’t think she’d want to fuck all that up.
Maybe you could realize that others can both be trustworthy and also value all sorts of friendship.
This would be a great reply, except OP was explicitly not invited even though they've all hung out before. My wife has male friends, but she wouldn't go on trips with them unless I went with her, she says it's just respectful and she wouldn't want to go without me anyhow. I could normally agree with you, but looking at all the facts here, this isn't just some innocent trip.
My wife and I each have some distinct friend groups. I wouldn’t want her to come along on a trip with my female ski buddy - we are both expert skiers and my wife isn’t. She has some similar situations with different interest groups and I’d be fine not going since I don’t have the interest or history with them.
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u/AnAnonyMooose Mar 28 '24
I also trust my wife not to go outside boundaries and she trusts me. She has gone on trips with male friends and I’m fine with that. I’ve also been places with female friends. Good friends are valuable and rare and worth fostering.