Signs His Friends Think You Keep Him On A Tight Leash

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I know it’s an annoying, frustrating, and a slightly offensive cliché—one depicted too often in sitcoms and rom coms—but it does exist: the “boys” believing one of their crew married someone militant. I’m talking about the man who gets teased by his guy friends for having a spouse who clearly runs the show and runs a very tight ship at that. They call him whipped. They call him a little b*tch. They think he’s on a tight leash. While I do hate the idea of adjusting my behavior in any way so that my partner’s friends think I’m “Chill,” it is true that I don’t want them thinking that I boss my partner around. And, for the record, they don’t appear to think that. In fact, I know they don’t think that of me because they think that of one of the other significant others, and they’re open with me about it. Sometimes, I pity her—she doesn’t know what they say behind her back. But, I do also know that she kind of—for better or for worse—does seem to control her partner. If you suspect it may be true, here are signs your partner’s friends say you keep him on a tight leash.

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You hear them groaning when you call

When you’ve called him while he was with his boys and he picked up, you heard weird noises. Groans, guffaws of disappointment, or perhaps even the sound of someone imitating a whip…And then someone shushing everyone.