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Topic Q & A's : The Jumping Point... Where Friendship Becomes Emotional Infidelity?
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From: MSN NicknameSilken2004  (Original Message)Sent: 9/2/2006 3:20 PM
We have talked in this forum, about whether or not men and women can just be friends... This topic is designed to move one step beyond that question to the area involving your partner having a close friend or making a close friend of someone of the opposite gender... How do you feel about your partner spending a few quiet hours with their "friend", possibly "doing lunch" and discussing the problems he or she feels they are having in their relationship with you?  How do you feel about hearing that your partner's  friend thinks YOU should lose weight, be more responsive, make more money or any of the other tons of things friends think?  How will you feel if you plan an evening for you and your partner and find out that your partner actually has plans to go out with their friend that night? 
 
 At what point, is that friendship no longer a friendship and actually "emotional infidelity"?
 
 

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From: MSN Nickname鈥燭her脿Sent: 9/2/2006 4:18 PM
I will just do a short opinion here for now, because this subject is very sensitive to me & I am still trying to accept what happened...........
I still do believe male & female can be best of friends without becoming emotional infidelity.............You have to have complete trust in your partner, or why you togather...........Everyone needs someone to confide in, male or female.........I am not sayin it's easy, cause we all experince insecurities within.............Our heart has the capabilities to love in many differnt forms, with many people at once..........

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From: MSN Nickname_路拢d每G氓m茂帽茫陇路_1Sent: 9/2/2006 10:19 PM
My partner has girl and guy friends and thats all they are..
He has spent an hour having coffee downtown at Tim Horton's with one of "our" lady friends,why  you may ask?..She is a married mom in her early 30's and wanted to vent about her husband, and she needed a man's advice on the subject..Top is quit good at listening and can give the men's prospective and his advice on things..
If I have to vent about things I don't have a guy or a girl friend that I can talk to about it because I have great difficulty trusting other people and their advice. That started when I was a kid growing up in a household where the mother didn't give a damn and didn't want to hear it..The father was my venting board and he didn't give all that great of advice..Actually he always sided with the other person whom I was venting about be it male or female...
Now if my partner and his lady friend crossed the line and started spending more time with each other then I'd have to say..Get your  gear and go live with her seeing that you are sooooo happy with each other..
Everybody has faults...
I think when 2 people..male and female can be friends that's great, everyone needs the advice from someone..but when a friendship goes beyond that and they start spending more and more time together and forgetting about the other person in the picture ( married partner) that's when they crossed that tight little line from being friends into something more, where they are now emotionally linked to each other..Now the marriage that he or she once had stops and the hate and inuendo between them starts..Leading to the partner with the (lady or male) friend becoming closer and closer and eventually the marriage is dissolved..
My parents were one case in point..another just happened to a good friend (male) of ours here in town..So it does happen..

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From: MSN NicknameLadyinKansas2Sent: 10/16/2006 3:37 AM
Lets see if we can get some more feedback from our other roomies on these topics.......anyone willing?

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From: bellaSent: 10/30/2006 2:13 AM
I definitely think the opposite sex can be friends and can care about each other without it moving in the wrong direction.  I have always had more "Male" interests all my life and can sometimes relate to them better.  Not too many women want to go fishing or do wood work.  Not to say I don't have female friends too!  I am dating a guy I have been friends with for 25 years, I could always talk to him about anything.  I know when things changed between us and there was no sex involved.  I knew everything about him and him me so we had a head start as far as new relationships go.  Interesting topic!

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