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The OP going out with friends for a work event is not any of the OPs business at all. She is an adult, kids ask for permission. The woman did nothing wrong, the OP is confusing a boyfriend for a parent.
100% agreement.
Hey, my wife is going to New York with a friend to go to a Broadway show and just visit.
Should I put a GPS tracker on her? What're those systems called?
Perhaps I should broach this subject to my partner of two years. We're not married, or engaged- heck, that means I'm single, and can do whatever the heck I want!
You're being disingenuous. You know that there are expressed rules for married couples. There may be some implied ones for people who are together and not married. But that's not the same thing.
Anyway, it's not relevant to this conversation because even a married person shouldn't be acting like a hyper-possessive 2 year old.
This is a two year relationship. It's sad people think this way these days. No wonder there are so many unwanted pregnancies, STDs, and Jerry Springer episodes.
Oh, come on.
She spoke to him. They were done talking for the evening... she went out later.
Should she have called him if she went to the 24-hr drugstore for cough medicine, too?
She was with work colleagues, not with a college football team.
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You're being disingenuous. You know that there are expressed rules for married couples. There may be some implied ones for people who are together and not married. But that's not the same thing.
Anyway, it's not relevant to this conversation because even a married person shouldn't be acting like a hyper-possessive 2 year old.
Expressed rules for married couples?
Is there somewhere I can find these? My partner and I have been chatting recently about getting married, and I definitely want to know what the "rules" are before I hop down the aisle.
Seriously though, aren't the "rules" what the people involved in the relationship define them as?
You're being disingenuous. You know that there are expressed rules for married couples. There may be some implied ones for people who are together and not married. But that's not the same thing.
Anyway, it's not relevant to this conversation because even a married person shouldn't be acting like a hyper-possessive 2 year old.
It is really weird.
My husband and I both travel for work sometimes. General guidelines we have established is that we might check in with a text or something to touch base during the day if we're not slammed with work and then we will touch base after work, usually via text or IM of some sort and tell the other what we are up to for the evening, then make plans to chat after we're back in our hotel room.
Which is what we do. If my husband or I, after signing off for the night, then got an offer from colleagues to go to some sort of gathering and one or the other of us went, we would TELL about it after the fact and that would be that.
I mean, I might kid around with him about his clandestine escape to party like a rockstar, but really? I would not dare start a fight over it.
He'd probably gripe about feeling obliged to go there, etc etc.
I'd do the same if the situation were reversed.
I really don't like doing too much socializing on work trips, but every industry is different. If you are in marketing, it's almost a foregone conclusion that you're expected to be a barfly on trips.
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If I were her, I'd be seriously questioning the relationship right about now. So what. Plans changed. She stayed out longer. So. What. She wasn't even in the same town as you, what difference would it have made if she went to bed or stayed out longer?
You sound very insecure and it's clear that you don't trust her. I'm sure she picked up on that. Add that to the standoffish childish behavior you displayed afterwards...yep. Seriously would be thinking about who, exactly, you are, and what I could expect in the future from you.
Hey, my wife is going to New York with a friend to go to a Broadway show and just visit.
Should I put a GPS tracker on her? What're those systems called?
Ho-Jack?
Then back home us guys are ruling the house like a caveman.
She better not call me from her trip location telling me I can't eat Cheetos in my boxers on the sofa. Cause I WILL be eating Cheetos in my boxers on the sofa in the livingroom!
MARRIED AND DOMESTIC PARTNERS HAVE ANNIVERSARIES. DATING DOES NOT.
Sounds like those silly teens who are celebrating their 8th month anniversary. Cheesy...
Wow, so many rules to remember about relationships.
Guess I should hurry up and get married so I can actually be in a "real relationship".
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