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Pulltheother · 03/05/2024 14:09

I'm quite a sociable person and have a wide group of friends mixed friends. I'd say my closest friends among them are women, but there are a few men I'd count as decent friends too.

The ones I am closest too are single because I am very careful to maintain boundaries with married men. I wouldn't, for example have the kind of "feelings" conversations with a married man that I do with my single or female friends. I wouldn't go on a 121 outing with a married man or message him outside of our groups.

I'm nothing special, I'm happy with my single life and (possibly) give off vibes that I'm not interested in the single men, but none of them, from my friendship groups, have ever made a move on me.

The married men OTOH! The latest one is someone I've always thought of as a a good, decent man, smitten with and respectful of his DW. I was wrong, again.

I'm not saying it happens every week, but over 20 years, probably half a dozen times a man I thought of as a decent person and friend has done this.

Is it me? Do I have all the wrong friends? Or are all men thoroughly disappointing in the end?

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Pulltheother · 03/05/2024 14:10

Oh I should say, I'm currently single but haven't been for all the 20 years, that doesn't seem to make a difference.

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Pulltheother · 03/05/2024 14:48

It is me!

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EBearhug · 03/05/2024 15:02

It's not you, it's men. I've been single a lot and quite a few married men have tried it on over the years. They don't if you're the "possession" of another man.

MarjorieDanvers · 03/05/2024 15:05

It’s men not you! All women need a man don’t you know!

boobot1 · 03/05/2024 15:41

Yup, experienced this a lot. Friends have too. Its so weird and totally creepy, what are they thinking?

EBearhug · 03/05/2024 16:24

Its so weird and totally creepy, what are they thinking?

Something along the lines of, "She's single, she must be desperate, I might get a shag."

frozendaisy · 03/05/2024 16:38

And "she's my wife's mate she won't want to lose her friends and not tell"

They take a chance you won't tell the wife they are married to a sleaze but then the sleaze would deny it and you would be the outcast because women would rather blame other women than face the fact they have a dud.

But there you go.

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