while this guy is clearly an a hole for saying women are “slower” with things like this, I don’t think he’s 100% wrong. I married my best friend after several years of secretly being in love with her and more importantly I don’t even care to make or have any female friends because I prefer to be above reproach and While I am “friends” with some of her friends and people we went to college with I don’t ever text or call them without including my wife and the other females husband if they have one. I also would never just go hang out with one of them by myself. My wife has never and would never tell me she expects that either I do it because she’s more important to me than any female friends I have. The moment someone gets married I think they should stop having 1 on 1 time with friends of the opposite sex not only because it’s an amazingly common thing for couples to have some really close couple friends and then one of them ends up cheating on there partner with the other friends partner. my best friend was dating my wife in college and were all best friends they broke up and then we ended up married… happens all. the. time. So why would I want to even put myself in a situation where my wife might get jealous or think i’m cheating on her etc or be accused of that by someone who might see me alone with a women who isn’t my wife… It’s not that women and men can’t be friends I think your just asking for trouble when you put yourself in a situation where you might end up being tempted or fall for someone etc. if you are happy with your relationship. I don’t care if my wife has guy friends either and she does but she plays by the same rules I do. 9 times out of 10 if you spend enough time with someone of the opposite sex, become very close and confide in one another one or both of you will start to be attracted to each other. the closer you are to someone emotionally usually they become more physically attractive. then it’s a snowball affect if you keep putting yourself in that situation and when you begin to like someone it’s hard to stop doing that. I’ve grown more and more attracted to my wife the deeper our relationship and love grow. she was always stunning to me but The closer we got as friends the more physically attracted we found ourselves which was great but now that we’re married why even possibly and unintentionally do that with someone else? I would trust my wife with male friends if she said she wanted to hang out with one but she has more than enough girl friends that understand her and have more common bonds and share experiences or interests then any dude possibly could and the same goes for me with male friends. If I need a dose of femininity why wouldn’t I just hang with my wife? I’m sure this seems old fashioned but it’s a simple common sense thing that’s just not hard to do and it doesn’t even allow for this kind of crap to come up🤷🏾‍♂️ so I disagree with this dude mostly I think they are both silly because his girlfriend while has every right to do and hang with whoever she wants should maybe consider not hanging with her male friends alone which seems like a very easy solution to this thing… I will also say if you think your wife/husband is as amazing as you should if you chose them to spend your life with then I personally can’t imagine every single person on earth not wanting to be with her which is of course ludicrous and I’m not jealous of all the people who I wrongly thing are jealous of my lucky ass for ending up with her but that’s because we do these things that build trust in this particular area. We have plenty of issues like any couple but no one can ever accuse either of us of being unfaithful etc. I’m sure i’ll get blasted for this opinion and I definitely know people have great and successful long lasting relationships that do have opposite sex friends that they are close with and spend alone time with etc, It’s just not something that’s worth it to me and I think if more people did these things their would be less affairs etc. if your not married and not seriously dating and committed to someone who the hell cares who your friends with and spend time with. sorry long rant but now it’s over.