Matt Walsh

So we're going to spend time on the show talking about the things that matter in life, as we so often do, marriage, children, relationships.

And that's going to be a special focus of the show this year.

Earlier this week on X, we were talking about some of this, and I made this point.

I said a married person simply should not have an opposite sex friend who is not also a friend of their spouse.

And even then, there's no scenario where the spouse and the friend should be hanging out alone.

These are the most basic boundaries.

If you aren't prepared to put them in place and respect them, you shouldn't get married.

That's obviously true.

I've also said that kind of thing many times.

Plenty of people did not agree.

There are a lot of comments, a lot of people responding to it.

So we're going to go through and read some of them now.

In fact, I'm going to read a few responses, a few comments, and then I'll offer a general response to all of them together.

So...

Real Klopek writes, to prove Matt's point in just about every example of this, the spouse finds this friend physically attractive, and that is not a coincidence.

Show me an example of a married guy who has a cross-eyed female friend who weighs 300 pounds and vice versa.

Christina writes, Matt doesn't trust himself to be alone with any of his female coworkers, or does he not hire women?

Either way, he needs to learn to grow up and not ogle other women.

ClimateWarrior7 says, what are you supposed to do with your opposite sex friends when you get married?

Dump them?