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<blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 1438537" data-attributes="member: 7464">The only person I ever really talk to on the phone is my wife - she calls me at work 2-3 times a day.&nbsp;So a few weeks ago I'm at home on the phone with a good mutual female friend of ours - in fact, now she's a member of our gaming group. As I hang up, I say, &quot;Ok. Love you. Buhbye.&quot;&nbsp;My wife looks up from where she's sitting and says, &quot;You know, you could never get away with having an affair. You're too stupid.&quot; (or something similar. I may be paraphrasing for comedic effect. She said it affectionate-like, so it wasn't really an insult.)&nbsp;And boy did I feel stupid. What was my friend thinking? Did she think I made an incompetant pass at her? Did she blow it off as me being stupid? Turns out she interpreted it as positively as possible - she said if she'd been quicker on the uptake she would have said she loved me too. But as a friendly, sisterly kind of love. She knows I'm faithful to my wife and all, and was assuming I wasn't being stupid.&nbsp;Turns out later that this was shakey territory, though, since she'd recently managed to finally get rid of a &quot;friend&quot; who had become totally obsessed with her, to the point of religious adoration, trying to break her up with her other friends so he could have more time with her, and other psycho tendencies. She easily could have flipped out, thinking another good friend was crossing the line, especially since it was so soon after the psycho guy.&nbsp;All's well though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MerakSpielman, post: 1438537, member: 7464"] The only person I ever really talk to on the phone is my wife - she calls me at work 2-3 times a day. So a few weeks ago I'm at home on the phone with a good mutual female friend of ours - in fact, now she's a member of our gaming group. As I hang up, I say, "Ok. Love you. Buhbye." My wife looks up from where she's sitting and says, "You know, you could never get away with having an affair. You're too stupid." (or something similar. I may be paraphrasing for comedic effect. She said it affectionate-like, so it wasn't really an insult.) And boy did I feel stupid. What was my friend thinking? Did she think I made an incompetant pass at her? Did she blow it off as me being stupid? Turns out she interpreted it as positively as possible - she said if she'd been quicker on the uptake she would have said she loved me too. But as a friendly, sisterly kind of love. She knows I'm faithful to my wife and all, and was assuming I wasn't being stupid. Turns out later that this was shakey territory, though, since she'd recently managed to finally get rid of a "friend" who had become totally obsessed with her, to the point of religious adoration, trying to break her up with her other friends so he could have more time with her, and other psycho tendencies. She easily could have flipped out, thinking another good friend was crossing the line, especially since it was so soon after the psycho guy. All's well though. [/QUOTE]

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