Emotional Affairs

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Are we not allowed to form friendships and bonds with people of the opposite sex once we're in a relationship?

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This is an interesting one. The trends seems to be no, we cannot. But I have a friend of mine from the gym, she's married with three kids and we routinely get breakfast or otherwise hang out. It's not that I'm non-threatening either, she just doesn't see the problem with it. She told me a guy recently mistook her wanting to hang out with him as romantic interest, which led to a bit of discomfort but she and her husband are presumably fine with it.

On the flip, another friend of mine from the gym who is also married recently solicited a female member to hit tennis balls. She played in college and is very good. Word of this raised a bunch of eyebrows, like he's somehow committing an infidelity by practicing his tennis. No doubt he did ask her partly because of her looks, but I know him and it wasn't going farther than that.