I'm all for platonic m/f friendships even for married people, and yes they can exist.

But.

Anyone who is already admittedly unhappy with her marriage who suddenly finds she has THAT much to say to an opposite-sex friend while simultaneously having not much to say to her husband is playing, not with fire, but with C-4. Detonation is well-nigh inevitable. IMHO.

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