What he did was despicable but being in love can make people do incredibly stupid things.

It is not just "some other girl" if he is trying to marry her

Except it's not just some other girl.

#2 - she's obviously not "just some other girl." He's about to marry her.

50% percent of marriages end in divorce anyways.

Doesn't justify it. She's controlling and she needs to respect his choices instead of restricting him from seeing his best friend. Anyone of my best friends who would stop seeing me for a partner would not be a friend at all.

That's just urban legend, not a true statistic at all

Actually the divorce rate is 32 to every 1000 people and 40-50% percent of marriages (where either the husband or the wife wants a child and the other doesn't ) ends in divorce. Thanks google

Actually those statistics are deliberately skewed to give people the wrong idea about the divorce rate. For instance. 1st time marriages, with no kids from previous relationships, have a 20%-25% divorce rate. 2nd marriages have a 50% divorce rate, and 3rd a 75% divorce rate.

#24: The number of divorces annually is one-half the number of marriage ceremonies performed during the same time frame i.e., numerically, half of all new marriages end in divorce.

Sorry guys. I heard that statistic and took it as true. But I mean, fuck that chick.

#97 The problem with that method is it does not give an accurate statistic for how many people that got married in any one year have since been divorced. For a factually accurate statistic a different method needs to be used. In year X, Y people got married, and of the people that got married in year X, Z have gotten divorced. Z/Y= the actual divorce rate for that year. If people REALLY wanted to be accurate with the statistics (which of course they don’t) they’d subcategorize by if it’s a 1st, 2nd, 3rd marriage etc. Instead “they” just give a basic method with a one size fits all inaccurate rate so people get the wrong idea.

Yeah, she could wait it out but would you really want a "friend" like this back? If they were so quick to drop OP this time around; who's to say they won't do it again?

To be fair, abusive or controlling partners can have an unbelievable amount of control over the person. Not sure if it's to that, though, and it's up to op on what she does.

Oh, but it does mean you're selfish and wrong for asking someone to stop communication with another person because you don't like it and it's even worse when you're requesting this from them simply because the best friend is of the opposite sex. Unless they gave you a reason not to trust them, it all screams insecurity.

if it is not about insecurity (90% definitely is) it is obviously trust issues, if you can't trust someone, you shouldn't be with them, controlling them is pathetic on your part and they are dumb to let it happen!

I'm not saying being insecure is not it, it's a part, but there are other reasons too. For example, my ex had a lot of girl best friends, and I didn't mind, but I had told him that they all had feelings for him and I wanted him to keep a distance from them, he assured me they didn't have any feelings towards him. But as soon as we broke up, all those girls confessed their feelings towards him, and he later told me about it and that I was right. Obviously they didn't want to break us up or anything like that, but sometimes you just don't like your significant other to be close to them. You just don't. And that's okay.

Something very similar happen to me. My ex had a friend who liked him when we were dating. I told him it was pretty obvious she had a crush on him which he didn't believe. Anyways a few months after we broke up, she tells him she likes him as more than a friend.

I agree with you. I'm sure no boyfriend would be okay with you hanging out alone with your "guy friend" and vise versa. who can actually say they're completely okay with that? Hell let's throw in a sleep over too since that's what most friends do from time to time. not okay.

I'm married, and not only am I 'completely ok' with my husband hanging out alone with girl friends, I encourage him to get close to my friends as he moved across the world to be with me, leaving all his family, friends, work, life behind forever (and if that's not proof that I am number one in his life, I don't know what is). He has no friends here, so if he is able to gain some confidantes, I'd be overjoyed no matter what genitals those friends have. It's called trust.

#20 you don't have to be insecure to not like ppl.