I’m curious

[Dynamic]

I just saw some of the replies for the first time! That’s weird thanks everyone !

 

[Mach123]

A large percentage of married people do this in my experience and I’m 67 and married almost 40 years . People who want to stay married that is. I’ve seen them come and go.. Why tempt fate. It’s human nature . It’s not like you can’t have friends either.. she can have friends that a man I can have friends that are women just don’t get too friendly. We’re only human and it happens to everybody. It’s not like you never look at a person of the opposite sex. You can’t help it. And I mean, look look.

 

[Freida]

I have many male friends
Hubby has several female friends
We've been married 32 years and never once have we discussed setting limits on who we can be friends with - especially not based on gender

So maybe a better question for you is why this is a question in the first place? Do you think your partner will cheat on you? If they are that kind of person it won't matter if they have friends or not. If they want to cheat they will find someone. Yep - it's that simple

You've got a lot of really good answers in the responses
But perhaps you want to look more closely at why you are asking the question in the first place. And even more closely if it's your partner asking this question because that's a big ol domestic violence flag

 

[Dynamic]

For me: my partner and I are friends with like everyone anywhere

My ex wasn’t like this

Him and I have discussed this a few times.

I’m curious to hear about everyone’s experiences just like they are now because it helps me see what is healthy and not

For M and I personally we’ve both been cheated on many times. We trust each other but we do have some understandings around friends that seem healthy for us as long as we don’t make the past of being cheated on an issue

Also even tho we’ve known each other our relationship is and feels new still

 

[Dynamic]

I basically don’t want our awesome trusting free relationship to change . We’ve been thru a few conversations where either person was insecure or suspicious and we were able to navigate with little issue. I love that about him


Maybe I’m just nervous this relationship will get f up too somehow idk but I like talking about all this :) helps somehow