This 42-year-old guy has a Wife who is 36, and they have been married for quite some time now. He says he’s been awful with communicating with his wife, and he’s been a little distant from her lately as well.
He encouraged his wife to take up some new hobbies to fill up her free time, and he thinks it’s actually his fault that his wife made a new best friend at work, who is a guy.
His wife refers to this guy as her “best friend” and “BFF,” so initially, he was not concerned that there could be more going on between them.
“Turns out she has admitted she is very attracted to him,” he explained. “He to her also. He is both athletic and attractive, and I’m not really in that category anymore.”
“She told him that she can’t drink alone with him because she’s worried about controlling herself and it may ruin their friendship.”
“Also, because she’s married, and she’d have to live with that. She then agreed that they could drink, but she will need to be made to leave after a while because she doesn’t want to do the wrong thing.”
He thinks his wife and her new work bestie are acting like teens crushing on one another. They basically go out on little dates together, and they text back and forth practically every day.
He also knows that his wife has been sending her friend selfies, and her friend will tell her that she looks gorgeous and make other remarks about his wife’s appearance.
It does seem to him that his wife and her friend will tease one another and try to make the other person jealous.
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His wife calls her friend and talks on the phone with him when he is not around too.
“She does always mention “us” and “we” and me by “name” when referring to activities I do with her, so he knows I’m in her life,” he said.
“She calls me a good husband to him and doesn’t want things to end etc. Things have been going very well between us lately, but her relationship with him is getting closer over time, too.”
He can’t help but feel like it’s his fault for pushing his wife to branch out and get some hobbies because if he didn’t do that, maybe she wouldn’t have struck up a friendship with this guy from work.
“How do I approach this friendship as a concerned husband, considering I caused it?” he wondered.
“I do wonder if I’m overreacting.”
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