Dear Queenie,
My wife is a flirt and always has been – that is how I met her. One time she told a repairman in our home, flirtingly, to come back and see her some time.
I’ve told her I don’t like to hear things like that, and what if the man takes her up on it? But she says I should know she doesn’t really mean anything by it and not to let it bother me.
I say she should not talk to other men that way. She says she’s not doing anything wrong.
Queenie, who is right?—Angry husband
Dear Husband,
It is disrespectful to you for your wife to talk to other men that way, even though you know she does not mean anything by it and will not follow through if they try to take her up on it. Remind her how much you love her, how much it hurts your feelings when she behaves that way and what trouble she could be in if some man does take her up on it. Then let it go and hope she will behave better in the future.
