Did your parents have opposite sex friends? (wife, girlfriends, married)

[pitt_transplant]

I notice AGAIN and AGAIN problems with the opp sex platonic "friend" being a problem in a relationship. Yeh..blah blah blah...if they really love you

I am not cool with anyone I dated being all cozy with any females at all. To me it just seems like you are asking for some BS to happen.

I think of women who are a generation or so older than I am. I do not remember them having to have all these male "friends" and the guys did not have a bunch of female friends either. Secret gay lovers aside...I think that way had a lot less drama. Too bad its not the good old days.

[Coolhand68]

My dad did, but they were childhood friends of a strictly platonic nature and they were married to guys who were his friends, so they all sort of ran with the same crowd. My mom had none of the opposite sex, my dad would have killed them...literally.

[pitt_transplant]

LOL...so I see he was a REALLY old fashioned type (caveman) jk

Yeh...my parents did not have either. Just same sex friends/people they knew as couples thing. They did not do lunches alone though or anything like that.

[yankeegirl313]

My Mom did, but he was gay.

[Coolhand68]

Yeah, he was very jealous and possessive, and not someone who you'd want to spark off. Some guy once tried reaching over my dad at a bar to light my mom's cigarette...that ended badly.

[malamute]

My parents did not, they had mutual friends or couple friends for the most part except my mother had more friends.

I think in the old days, the spouse was the important relationship and no one, not even supposedly platonic friends were allowed to create wedges in that relationship. If a man really cares about his wife, then does he need platonic girlfriends -- many who really aren't all that platonic. What would he need them for? A shoulder to cry on? He has his wife's shoulder for that -- and the reverse is also true. Why would a married woman need supposedly platonic male friends? To cry on their shoulders? To help move furniture?

[SookieStackhouse]

Not any that I know of...

[the minx]

My mom did not. My dad did, but he was also whoring around on my mother.

There you go, pitt.

[PurpleLove08]

Yep and my step-mom accused him of sleeping with some of them.
I don't think it's true but you never know. They seemed pretty unattractive...but hey, my step-mom used to be my baby sitter so I wouldn't put it past my dad.

My mom has male co-workers that she's cool with but they never came over to the house without their wife or girlfriend.

[WestCobb]

My dad was better friends to his best friend's wife than he was to the "best" friend. I'm positive there was nothing going on there (would have been totally out of character for him).