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  Oh Pence has his own weird baggage, but that part is true — me going alone with another woman to a dinner is an issue.
context: One of many secrets to our happy 11 year (and counting) marriage is we don't seek platonic friends of the opposite gender. Do I really need my wife going to lunch with a single guy? Would she want me going shopping with a single woman? Hell no. Hanging out with coworkers is another story. Deliberately making dates with women who aren't my wife? Yeah that's not gonna end well.
  What works for you, doesn't work for everyone. >
  
  Fr though, I hate how taboo it is to acknowledge this, but successful relationships don't usually have close "platonic" friends of the opposite gender. Like how when Mike Pence talked about it being inappropriate for him to get dinner alone with a woman who isn't his wife, if anybody except Mike Pence said that, we all would have been like: "Yeah, duh".