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Asking Eric: My Husband Objects to My Work Dinners with Male Colleagues
- A woman in a senior management role at an international company encounters resistance from her husband regarding her attending solo business dinners with male coworkers in 2025.
- Her husband runs a business in an unrelated field, works exclusively with male peers, and views these solo dinners with male colleagues as disrespectful, despite denying feelings of insecurity or mistrust.
- The executive tries to avoid solo dinners with men but sometimes finds them necessary and provides her husband with advance notice, often anticipating arguments.
- She advises her husband to establish clear limits with others by firmly stating that his response will remain the same regardless of how often the topic is raised, and stresses that his feelings should not be subject to debate.
- Experts suggest bringing this issue to couple's therapy since it undermines her career validity, and addressing it separately could help maintain a secure relationship.
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Asking Eric: My husband gets very upset when I have work-related meals with men
Dear Eric: I am a female executive employed by a large global corporation. It is a common practice in my workplace, and an expectation of my job, that I meet with colleagues, customers and service providers, sometimes while traveling for work, often solo, often for business lunches and dinners at restaurants.My husband is a business owner in a different industry, has never worked in a professional office setting and his work colleagues are all m…
Asking Eric: My business lunches with male colleagues upset my husband, says female exec
DEAR ERIC: I am a female executive employed by a large global corporation. It is a common practice in my workplace, and an expectation of my job, that I meet with colleagues, customers and service providers, sometimes while traveling for work, often solo, often for business lunches and dinners at restaurants.
Asking Eric: Husband swears he’s not jealous when I have professional lunches with men, but...
Dear Eric: I am a female executive employed by a large global corporation. It is a common practice in my workplace, and an expectation of my job, that I meet with colleagues, customers and service providers, sometimes while traveling for work, often solo, often for business lunches and dinners at restaurants.
Asking Eric: My husband objects to my work dinners with male colleagues
Dear Eric: I am a female executive employed by a large global corporation. It is a common practice in my workplace, and an expectation of my job, that I meet with colleagues, customers and service providers, sometimes while traveling for work, often solo, often for business lunches and dinners at restaurants.
The Mercury news
Orlando SentinelAsking Eric: My husband says this part of my job is disrespectful to him
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The Fort Morgan Times
Asking Eric: Husband objects to wife’s work dinners with male colleagues
Dear Eric: I am a female executive employed by a large global corporation. It is a common practice in my workplace, and an expectation of my job, that I meet with colleagues, customers and service providers, sometimes while traveling for work, often solo, often for business lunches and dinners at restaurants. My husband is a business owner in a different industry, has never worked in a professional office setting and his work colleagues are all …
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