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Is it okay for a Girlfriend or Wife to keep and maintain Beta Male Orbiters?

A beta male obiter is a guy who stays close friends with a committed woman in hopes of getting some action or hopeful intention to make her his. 

Not unlike gay friends, some women keep these guys around and sparsely rewarded them for their attention and friendship. It could be just platonic friendship, flirting, sexting and even occasional sex, while she is in the committer relationship.

As many guys will attest, it’s amazing how fast a woman can go from just being broke-up to be going on a date later that night after serving divorce papers earlier that day. 

Most husbands and boyfriends see little threat from these little side friendships. Are they okay?

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  • 1 year ago

    I have a few platonic male friends. I don't flirt with them or sext them or have sex with them... that is NOT a platonic relationship. So I suppose that I do not have "Beta Male Orbiters" and can see zero place for them in my life as a married woman. My husband has female friends who aren't trying to "get with him" in my place. No. There's no place for "side action" in marriage. At least not mine!

    My husband chased every man that I'd dated or was "friends" with away within weeks of our marriage. He totally did not think Orbiters were okay!

  • 1 year ago

    It seems that you are making a mountain out of a molehill, trying to intellectualize and interpret women's intentions and in ways that may not really apply to the majority of women, if any of them.  How about the idea that people of both genders simply might like friends without ulterior motives such as the ones you proposed.   Perhaps you might be untrusting of the sincerity of the women in question.

  • Anonymous
    1 year ago

    There’s no threat if the marriage or relationship is solid. Women who aren’t loyal are whores. 

    “Beta orbiters” is bullshit. Side friendships aren’t the problem. The woman in question or her “alpha” partner is the problem.

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