2/5/10
Your Call: My Friend Keeps Hitting On My Wife

Dear Em and Lo,

I have a friend let’s call him “A”, we used to be closer, but as time has gone by, we probably see each other every other month or so, and the occasional email of non-importance (humor, etc). I’ve known for a while that “A” has had a crush on my wife. In fact all my friends think she is a catch.

“A” sends my wife emails several times a week, political commentaries, humor, a little bit of everything, but nothing too personal. My wife was recently hospitalized for several weeks. “A” went out of his way (30 or so miles) to see her several times a week. While she was in the hospital she was up all hours, and my friend would drunk dial her. During these conversations he would tell her about how much of a crush he has always had on her, how special he thought she was, how she should go to baseball games with him (season ticket holder), how he was lonely and needed a woman in his life, and would also ask her for advice on meeting women.

My wife was very upfront about this happening, and just blew it off as him being harmless, and that he was making up for the times when he had dropped the ball in years past when we had a mutual friend in the hospital, and he didn’t step up to the plate.

When I asked her how she would feel if one of her friends called me more than her, emailed me, flirted with me, drunk dialed me, etc., my wife said she got the picture and that it would be inappropriate.

Not more than 20 minutes later my wife said she was going to call him, to make sure he wasn’t embarrassed by the things he said during the drunken conversations.

Now he is coming over for dinner.

I don’t have many close friends, so losing a friend really hurts. I know my wife isn’t attracted to him, but I still can’t stomach his behavior. I feel disrespected.

I have already been struggling with my lack of close friends, trying to figure out what I am doing wrong, why I have acquaintances instead of friends, why I no longer have deeper friendships in my life? Believe me I am keeping my therapist busy.

Do I keep this friendship? Do I try and salvage it? Or do I walk away?

 

— Virtual Cuckold

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80 Comments

  1. He is not your friend. Friends do not hit on friends wife or girlfriend – period. There is an unwritten code of ethics.

  2. I agree with the folks that say this man’s wife must be enjoying A’s attention because she has enabled A to continue his behavior. His wife shouldn’t have let it go this long. This is how fights get started between men. His wife has put him between a rock and a hard place. I think the question here is how does this man tell his wife that she is partly responsible for what’s happening with A. She’s probably not going to be happy to hear that. Especially from her husband.

    My wife had a guy flirting with her and would even tell me about it but wouldn’t put a stop to it when I asked her to. She liked the attention and after awhile began to expect it from him and started to pursue it. It crossed way over the line and now she wishes she had stopped it from the get go. Be careful what you wish for.

  3. i think that person means that chicks dont always see guys bs for what it is.lowlifes like his friend will not respect the boundary and the wife may not realize what hes getting at,at first anyway.

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