I would attempt to avoid it with virtually any other option. I just don't think it's a big difference.

Also, you have to keep in mind he is a politician. A photo of him eating dinner with a woman who isn't his wife could be damaging to his career even if it was platonic.

Oh look a republican is weird. Yawn.

Pence calls his wife "mother". That is beyond weird.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

The guys in relationships who willingly want to hang out with other women but not fuck them are the weirdos.

It would be quite bizarre to have a personal rule about never sharing a meal with a person of the opposite sex.

Having a personal rule about not having dinner alone with a woman that you would like to nail and you think maybe she'd be up for it too? That's probably a good rule to have.

Alright, well that is bordering on weird. It's not that big a deal. I mean I guess I could understand if it there were trust issues or infidelity in the past. In a healthy relationship I don't see what there is to be so afraid of.

I disagree. If he gets spotted having a dinner with Carly Fiorina or some shit nobody is gonna be writing about how they are probably having an affair. In fact, it'd be weird to even think along those lines.

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Of course you did, but you didn't . That's what separates us from the lower mammals and russians

The business requires business meetings and some of those meetings are one on one with women. I trust those women can control themselves after getting a whiff of my manly musk.

I did represent an oriental massage parlor once and had dinner with the female owner after a meeting. She did ask if I wanted to go to the place for a massage afterwards. I politely declined but I don't think it was any more of a sexual request than if I had asked her to go to my office to do research.

I worked under a female partner when I was starting out. We worked late hours. We went to dinner often. She had dragon breath and straw hair so she wasn't getting the kielbasa under any circumstances. However, the most despicable thing about her is that she always wanted to split the check or make me pay for food. Here was a woman making mid six figures AND who had an expense account with the firm but she was such a cheap ass she is making a junior associate working extra hours pick up petty cash level meals. She pulled that shit with some other guy who was lower on the totem pole than even me. I never understood the stereotype of the Welsh being cheap until I met her

Pence calls his wife "mother". That is beyond weird.

[ There are any number of other ways they could have dinner without it being that and he would choose those instead.

There would be virtually no reason for them to have a one on one dinner though. That is the ultimate point. There are any number of other ways they could have dinner without it being that and he would choose those instead.

I don't really know what you are saying here. What are the number of other ways? Just making sure other people are around for the dinner? Again, that goes back to a sign of a lack of trust then.

Why would any heterosexual guy spend his free time with a woman if he can't or doesn't want to fuck her?

Most business trips I have been on you eat dinner:
1) With clients
2) With other workers from the company you work for
3) In your room
4) With your wife if she came with on the trip

I would choose any of those options over a one on one meal with another woman.

You keep on saying it has something to do with trust like it is some amazing take. My wife trusts me. If I was on business I'm sure she would prefer I not go to a strip club either.

That was a big thing in westerns, wasn't it?

It's an obvious take, not an amazing or insightful one.

Are you saying if you and a female coworker were on a business trip and she wanted to have dinner and you had no plans, you would rather eat dinner in your room alone then go to some restaurant with her? That seems pretty antisocial.

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Still, eating alone is a safer bet.

I guess it's because I'm not married, but it seems bizarre to say this while also insisting there aren't trust issues.

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Are you saying if you and a female coworker were on a business trip and she wanted to have dinner and you had no plans, you would rather eat dinner in your room alone then go to some restaurant with her? That seems pretty antisocial.

I have two close female friends I get dinner with here and there. I also have a platonic work wife I've gotten food and drinks with after work.

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I think it would be a close call but I probably would go to dinner in that situation as not to be rude.

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Just for the record, I am specifically talking about dinner.

I've been through this in both a failed marriage and a happy one.