oceanblueeyes
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My BBM reply is not specific to your post, SpoiledMom, but I'm using it as a springboard for this question:
Am I in the minority because I have friends of both sexes that I do things with - often without my spouse? I'm having trouble relating to that phrase that many have used as above.
To me, 'another male friend' sounds so singular, almost like an oddity. Foreign to me. I'd be as equally likely to go for lunch or out for a bit with either a male or a female buddy, and frequently with groups of each in varying numbers. Tuesday night out just last week started out with one male chum and I meeting for drinks, female friend joined us later for a round, then left to study just as another male friend arrived to join my first bud and I for dinner. (Note, my spouse of 20 years was 100 miles away parked at home because he neither shares our interests, nor knows these chums in person.)
Is that more uncommon than common to have friends of the opposite sex these days? Or am I getting myself all hung up on semantics and context?Or do you guys mean that you think KB had 'another *extra special* male friend'?
I know it is very common in military life to have many friends of both genders. Most of the ones I know if they go to a club there will be mixed genders in the group.
But most of these werent married so it wouldnt really matter either way. Heck a lot of single females will live off base with one or more of their best male single friends and it will be strickly a friendship relationship.
I actually dont know what is customary in most married military families. The married ones I know go together to a club or a bunch of guy friends go together and the same for the women. But I would think if their spouse is ok with them going to a bar by themselves .........then it shouldn't be a problem.
But if the spouse is unaware and wouldnt approve then I think it would/could create problems in the marriage because anything done behind one's back is wrong and is just asking for trouble, imo.
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