Re: Wife has male friends.
I find that view garbage.
Men are not all beasts that every women we lay eyes on we start to think how to get laid with her. Maybe you think of men like that, I don’t. Its the same ridiculous reasoning some men used to cover their women from head to toe so other men ‘‘won’t get tempted’’. And the same goes for women, if you think a man and a woman alone in a room would mean they would end up getting physical, that is pretty sad.
No offense. I don’t know what UK the OP envisioned but in this UK men and women have to work together in every field and every walk of life, and friendships will happen. Either he thickens his skin or either he finds a way to deal with it.