41-year-old man allowed his friends to pressure him into organizing a hiking trip without his wife: ‘They have also made remarks implying that my husband should prioritize their trips over plans he has made with me’ – FAIL Blog

In the perfect world, our partners’ friends adore us, we get along wonderfully, and ride off into the sunset together, but in the widely disappointing world we actually live in, that’s not always the case, and we often have to stand some very nasty friends of our significant others. If this rivalry had been kept private between the husband and his friends, it would’ve been a different story. My controversial stance is that one can have a safe space where our partner is not welcome and still very much love them. Our friends are not obligated to like our spouses, and we are allowed to talk badly about them every once in a while. If we can handle it properly and it never becomes toxic, I think it’s pretty much ok.