your post really rang a bell in my head. What I found amazing is that h would take advice from a female friend about our marriage when she had never met me and only know h a few months!! I guess it was because she could validate how he was feeling and in fact she is in a marriage where she told me (we've spoken twice) h was a bestfriend only as she had lost any other feelings for him. Plus she has had an affair. Not the best person to be giving advice!