Who are all these married people going out for one on one dinners with the opposite sex?
If you're in a profession that requires a fair amount of travel to meet with colleagues in other cities, it happens all the time.
Oh I get that side of things. I'm talking about people mentioning one on one dinners, coffee etc with platonic female friends. DavidB mentioned going out for drinks with a woman who was engaged and expected it to happen after she was married, and it seemed a bit foreign to me.
Between work, my marriage and general household stuff, I barely have time to see my friends in a group setting, much less meeting a female friend alone for cocktails.
Well, I've never been married, but looking back through my memory banks at occasions on which I had dinner alone with a woman who was married (and not a blood relative, like my sister), all of the examples I can think of involve someone traveling. Either we had both traveled to some work-related event, or it was someone (either work colleague or platonic friend) who didn't live in the same city I did, but was visiting the city I was in for something or other, and had dinner with me while she was there, *or*, at least in one case I can think of, she didn't live in the same city I did, but was accompanying her husband on a business trip to my city, and had dinner with me one night while in town, while he was busy with his work event.
So yeah, I can't think of any occasions on which I had a dinner alone with a non-related married woman while we were in the city that she lives in.
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