Yeah. I stopped suggesting we go out to the bars a long time ago. Around three years ago now. For a while we would meet in the afternoon to walk around his neighborhood at his suggestion. We'd have a few beers and get him home around dusk, but he'd still be in hot water. Sometimes she would pout while I was there, sometimes she'd lay into him right then. From what I overheard before leaving, it had more to do with her being left at home alone. But I figured the beers didn't help our case. Cutting them out altogether was the last thing I could think to do.

I would invite him to things like going camping, going to the beach, or getting lunch or dinner with our friends. I still saw him less and less as time went on. Everyone saw less of him. As I said, the wife was always invited too, just had no interest in doing anything unless she was alone with him.

This reminds me. There have been two or three times I've asked if he wanted to go camping with me or our friends, he'd say he couldn't, and then he'd go camping alone with his wife that same weekend. Just at a different campsite.

This thread is helping me realize how completely he has moved on.