Should a married woman have male friends?

Many married women (and married men) insist that having a best friend of the opposite sex is perfectly healthy. In fact, they say that opposite-sex friends make better friends because they bring very different perspectives to the relationship. First, healthy friendship involves emotional intimacy, as well it should.

Can a married woman be just friends with a single guy?

Of course married women can be friends with single men. However, at the point at which the friend declares that they want more than mere friendship, it’s usually a good idea to have a serious conversation where you make your lack of interest abundantly clear.

Can a woman have male friends?

Sociologists have documented that men and women can indeed just be friends and that there are actually benefits that come with cross-sex friendships — like learning from the other side how to best attract a mate — that you can’t get from same-sex friendships.

Can a man and a woman be friends?

Whether you believe men and women can have opposite-gender friends post-marriage largely depends on whether you believe men and women can be friends at all. I’m a firm believer, but the research on the subject is complicated.

Why does a female friend tell a male friend?

A female friend is likely to tell you — in part because she believes it and in part because she wants to make you feel better —that the guy fled because he was scared off by his intense adoration and big feelings for you. A male friend knows the real deal: The guy got a better offer and took it because he’s not that interested in you.

Why are women not attracted to their male friends?

Researchers found that while women were generally not attracted to their male friends and saw the relationship as strictly platonic, the men usually had romantic feelings for their lady friends.

Can a married woman have close male friends?

A married woman can have male friends. Absolutely she can. But this sort of friendly acquaintance is not anything that would bother most husbands. And I doubt that’s the problem troubling the one who wrote to me. No, his question runs much deeper than that. He is really asking: Should a married woman have close male friends?

Why do some women have way more male friends than female?

It’s kind of harder at this point to make girlfriends, since most women have a secure and close inner circle of girls by this age; conversely, many women are wary of other women who have mostly men as friends. This isn’t to say, incidentally, that every woman whose friends are mostly men is dysfunctional or has poor social skills.

A married woman can have male friends. Absolutely she can. But this sort of friendly acquaintance is not anything that would bother most husbands. And I doubt that’s the problem troubling the one who wrote to me. No, his question runs much deeper than that. He is really asking: Should a married woman have close male friends?

Can a married woman have a man as her best friend?

When a woman shares intimate feelings with a man who isn’t her husband, a wedge forms between her and her husband. He is excluded from the privacy she shares with her male best friend. And when this starts to happen—beware. The husband is on the outside looking inward.

What happens to your friendships when you get married?

Inappropriate friendships when we’re married often happen when we haven’t discussed limits on what we can and cannot share with opposite gender friends. When friends start sharing more with each other than with their spouse, that is not good for the friendship. It can be deadly for the marriage.