Chat with Deb—Going Out With the Guys

Sorry, going out with whom?

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So I read this story by Toni Crowe that got me thinking while Deb & I were getting dressed.

When My Spouse Goes Out with His Two Friends, There Cannot Be Three Women with Them

ME: Debster, quick question — if I went out on the town with a couple of my guys, and for some reason you went out with a couple of your friends, and you saw me and my guys with three women, would that be a problem?

DEB: (pokes her head out of her closet to give me a cynical eye) I’m sorry, if you went out where with whom, why?

ME: Y’know, just out, for… doesn’t matter, whatever, with, y’know, a couple of my guys.

DEB: You have guys?

ME: That’s—

DEB: You have a couple guys?

ME: Hon—

DEB: You have any guys? At all? Anywhere?

These are all valid points. I do not, as it happens, have any IRL male friends, at least not the kind I would hang out with. Basically just married guys I see when I’m with Deb. Come to think of it, the last time I did anything close…