I just thought about this but I've finally realized after it happening several times that it annoys me.
I met my wife and married her a year later. We've been married about 8 months now.
One of my wife's friends lives in Vegas so I never got a chance to meet her (fortunately). My wife used to talk to her once every 2 or 3 weeks and they'd been great friends 10 years earlier when they lived closer together. So after I proposed my wife handed the phone to me to talk to her friend. First thing this chick says to me is, "She's my bitch!"
I'm a southern man, from NC... I'm not possessive or controlling or any of that shit but having someone tell me that my fiance (at the time) is their bitch didn't set well with me. I just disagreed with her and got off the phone as quick as I could. My wife and her friend's relationship is basically nonexistent now. Her friend is unhappily married and she said marriage sucks to my wife and tried to talk her out of it. If she had met me I could understand wanting to talk my wife out of it but whatever... That's all beside the point though.
I've met quite a few other friends of my wife and another handful of them claimed my wife as theirs to me. I just don't get that. Is that some female protective thing? The worst thing that transpires between my wife and I that she could tell her friends is that we argue sometimes. My point is I don't see that these women have anything to fear from me or any reason to need to protect my wife, so I don't see why they have to claim her when I meet them.
Maybe I just take it the wrong way. I dated her, I proposed and I married her. Where I come from she's mine and I'm hers and no friends try to lay claim. Sometimes I just don't get people from Louisiana. Maybe I'm just too territorial being raised in NC...
I met my wife and married her a year later. We've been married about 8 months now.
One of my wife's friends lives in Vegas so I never got a chance to meet her (fortunately). My wife used to talk to her once every 2 or 3 weeks and they'd been great friends 10 years earlier when they lived closer together. So after I proposed my wife handed the phone to me to talk to her friend. First thing this chick says to me is, "She's my bitch!"
I'm a southern man, from NC... I'm not possessive or controlling or any of that shit but having someone tell me that my fiance (at the time) is their bitch didn't set well with me. I just disagreed with her and got off the phone as quick as I could. My wife and her friend's relationship is basically nonexistent now. Her friend is unhappily married and she said marriage sucks to my wife and tried to talk her out of it. If she had met me I could understand wanting to talk my wife out of it but whatever... That's all beside the point though.
I've met quite a few other friends of my wife and another handful of them claimed my wife as theirs to me. I just don't get that. Is that some female protective thing? The worst thing that transpires between my wife and I that she could tell her friends is that we argue sometimes. My point is I don't see that these women have anything to fear from me or any reason to need to protect my wife, so I don't see why they have to claim her when I meet them.
Maybe I just take it the wrong way. I dated her, I proposed and I married her. Where I come from she's mine and I'm hers and no friends try to lay claim. Sometimes I just don't get people from Louisiana. Maybe I'm just too territorial being raised in NC...