We're Just Friends

I have married my best friend for years. But then I have a very close friend from my school time. And we do meet and chat on regular basis. He even drops at home when in my city and sometimes even spends night in our guest room. My husband never had any issues with that. They both like each other's company and are warm to each other.

@Kandae11 I am not married now and have male friends. I am not looking to get married again so any friends I have are nice to have.

I had with my best friend during my university days. She is a fine lady but changed when move to another country. Way back then, we are really good friends.

I had never had this situation

I have a platonic friend right now but my boyfriend doesn't know about it yet. I think he will be jealous.

After being a husband and dad, i feel like i dont have a time for socialize much. I dont regret it, because i enjoyed being a dad and husband. But i did a time for my "me time"(meeting my closed friends once a while or just talked in group chat). My wife never complaint about it, because she knew all of my friends

My husband had lots of female friends before we married. I was okay with it but I don’t think I should have been as I don’t think he was very honest about his feelings. Now I would not want him hanging around girls and I wouldn’t have married him if he still did that. It’s funny because once I got a male friend I went hiking with he wigged out and then asked me to marry him a few weeks later. Ball and chain it felt a bit.

I guess it depends on the closeness of the realtionship for both parties.

When I married my husband he knew I had three male friends that I was real close to. He had one female friend that he was close to. We would never have interfered with those friendships.

In highschool I had a guy friend. We ended up at the same College and we continued to be just pals. Even after graduation he would call me. He even called me when I first got married and he even saw my first born son when my son was a newborn. Then a couple of years past and I lost touch with him. I have checked to see if I could find him on Facebook recently and I couldn't find him. I really wonder what happened to him. One of my friends that knew him also lost touch with him.

I have a former colleague with whom I was very close when we worked together. After a few years, even though our friendship was strictly plutonic, my missus began to feel insecure about how close my colleague and I had become, especially during and after said colleague divorced her cheating husband. But no, I did not keep reassuring K that nothing was going on. Ultimately, my friend remarried and moved to another part of the state. We still stay in touch, but since she remarried, she and K are on friendly terms and, when we camp in that part of the state, the four of us often meet for coffee or a meal together.

I guess it depends how strong the relationship is between you and your significant other.

Yes I had a best friend who was male. It can work but I do think that it is rare. Often it doesn’t work if there are partners too…they can’t always accept the friendships.

I have had friendships with a few girls in my teenage, we went to school and come back together. Maybe I got attracted to some of them, but their sibling like behavior put me off instantly.

I had lots of girlfriends during my school days who are not in contact after we all had our own families. Also, I have felt a sign of jealousy on the face of my wife when an old girlfriend calls me, so I had decided a long way back not to be in their contact.

Yes, I have been in platonic relationship with men, no need to repeat "we are only friends", I had a boyfriend and my male friends knew.

Not easy though. I had female office colleagues quite friendly and my wife has male friends. We always draw a line though

My school day boys now old men were always my friends. We shared our feelings in school, on the phone sometimes. There's no romance between us, but in my young days my husband was too possessive about me and I stayed away from them. Only in 2017 when he accompanied me to the school meet did he understand that we were just friends.

I have never had a male best friend in my life but it looks fun to have one. But obviously one will feel jealous if they see their patner being close to someone who is of the other gender.