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Friend crossing boundary with husband?

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xxCharlottexx · 30/12/2025 14:16

I’m looking for opinions and advice please xx

So I’ve recently got back in touch with an old friend after falling out for 7/8 years, Literaly not speaking at all. She’s recently split from her husband and is living back at home with their 4 children. She’s the 1 who reached out.

She’s been round the house a fair few times recently and she seemed to hit it off with my husband quite well. They’re both ‘gym goers’ so that seems to be their common interest.

Anyway, now it seems like she’s messaging him a lot privately on social media. It was just memes to start with, but now she’s constantly asking for ‘gym advice’, ‘what to eat, what exercises to do’ etc.

I’ve seen the messages and they are quite flirty, little love heart emojis, kisses etc. It seems fine from my husbands end as his messages are quite blunt, and sometimes even ignores them when she’s trying to carry on the conversation. She likes every post / story he puts up and comments privately on them.

I feel it’s a little bit much, but I don’t know whether I’m just being paranoid or not? My husband says he’s just being polite by messaging back.

We recently had a night out in town where my husband a few friends met us later in the night. She was taking loads of photos of them both together ( we both agreed it was a bit weird ) and then sent like 10 photos to him privately the next day. It Literaly looked like they were a couple as she had her arm round him with the biggest smile on her face.

I haven’t seen her in person since then and I’ve deliberately said I’ve been busy to avoid meeting her. But i obviously can’t ignore her forever. Should I just tell her that I feel it’s crossing my boundary as a friend? Or maybe just go for the cowards way out and get my husband to block her, then pretend he deleted his account. I really don’t like confrontation but feel I should say something.

OP posts:
ADHDMumHere · 01/01/2026 12:20

You should set a clear boundary. Tell her calmly that her messages and behavior are making you uncomfortable and that you expect respect for your relationship. Avoid sneaky solutions like pretending he deleted his account it’ll just create more stress. Being upfront is healthier, even if it feels awkward.

HappyTalkingAndLaughing · 01/01/2026 14:54

CountryGirlInTheCity · 01/01/2026 12:08

Honestly I think it needs decisive, direct action, none of the polite excuses and it needs to come from your DH.

My DH had this with a woman from work years ago. The first flirtatious attempt he ignored, the second time he shut it down and told me that evening and the third time she tried to get him to go for a drink with her after work he said absolutely not, I’m v happily married and not interested. Again, told me in the evening and said he thought he’d been clear enough but was willing to be firmer if he needed to. It stopped after that.

Your DH needs to stop with the ‘I’m busy’ stuff and be direct: ‘No I won’t come round because your behaviour indicates that you’re after more than house repairs. You’ve already been inappropriate and you know you have. Charlotte and I have talked about it already. I’m not interested and I won’t be responding to your messages anymore. You also owe Charlotte an apology as she’s supposed to be your friend.’ The end!

This is how a DH should behave....not like yours @xxCharlottexx

tartyflette · 02/04/2026 14:28

xxCharlottexx · 30/12/2025 14:25

No they go to separate gyms, but she asked him to start going to her gym to ‘help her’.

Bit cheeky. And a warning signal perhaps.

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