Reply #45: We haven't done that to each other, with one exception.

[SeattleGirl]

There was a woman who was part of our group of friends. Over time, she started acting in a way that pissed both me and another woman off -- she was always making thinly veiled catty remarks to and about me and the other woman, and making excuses to my SO and my friend's SO to get them away somewhere. They didn't realize what was going on, because they'd been friends with her for a long time.

My friend and I finally told our SO's to cut it out, and quit falling for her shit. I didn't care that they were friends with her; both guys have always had female friends, so no big deal. But this woman was increasingly becoming a troublemaker, and it was getting really annoying.

Other than that, I've never said, "You can't talk to that woman, you can't be friends with her." Never put any other kind of restriction on him either.