Dear Queenie,
I get together once a week with a group of other women who are my friends since we were kids. Some of them who are married always bring their husbands along. I have nothing against their husbands, but I don’t understand why some women can’t do anything without their husbands.
Queenie, can you tell me why this is?—Middle-aged spinster
Dear Spinster,
Your friends may think you enjoy their husbands’ company. Or, if their husbands are retired, they may not have any social life without their wives. Or, if a husband is a “control freak” he may not allow his wife to go anywhere without him.
Why not ask these women why they do this, and suggest to them that you would prefer a “women only” outing at least once in a while?
