This is a complicated issue in marriage. I do not think you are being unreasonable, but you two may be incompatible. In other words, he may not be being a jerk or disrespectful. My husband and I are coming up on 23 years of marriage and I'm not going to lie -- it's been rocky sometimes -- but we are still best friends and we love each other. That's all a preamble to what I am going to say. My husband and I both get along better with members of the opposite sex. As in -- my best friends are men and his are women. It's just like that. And when you have good friends of the opposite sex, well, conversation is not always totally without flirtation or just comments that might not be totally nonsexual. There are, I guess, limits to that -- I mean being flirty or just making off-color jokes is one thing, actually having phone sex is another. I'm not sure what your husband is doing. What inevitably happens is that the relationship doesn't feel as secure as it would if we didn't have friends of the opposite sex, because we all know that friendships can morph beyond friendships. So, how do we handle this? First, we are a somewhat weird couple in that we totally respect each other's freedom and privacy. We don't check out each others e-mails for example and we are comfortable if the other goes out without us, even with friends of the opposite sex. No problem. We also base the security in our relationship beyond sexuality. In other words, we are committed to each other, we love each other, we are both confident that the other is not going to trade us in for a newer or better model. In that context, the minor flirtation with a member of the opposite sex or the fact that we go out with them for drinks for example without our spouse becomes a very minor issue -- a non-issue actually. The advantage that we have is that both of us have friends of the opposite sex. So, we understand the whole dynamic. And I can't ask him -- or insist -- that he give up his friends who are women, without me giving up my friends who are men, right? So...I'm going to end with this. If this completely bothers you and makes you unhappy, then you are not being unreasonable. If he likes having women friends and if his normal social outlet beyond you as a couple is having women friends, then he is not being a jerk for not wanting to give them up. You two are simply incompatible and one insisting over the other in the relationship will probably just make one of you unhappy. However, if one of you can understand and accept the other's needs and give in or you can come to some sort of agreement on the issue, you can probably save your marriage. I disagree that close friendships with members of the opposite sex are necessarily emotional affairs. Emotional affairs are when you are treating that friend as your actual partner and emotionally abandoning the person to whom you are committed emotionally. That is different. Ahh, I just saw your What Happened -- that's definitely beyond what I'm talking about that's an actual affair. Wishing you all the best as you go through this tough time.