Dear Annie: I have been married to my wife for 25 years, and overall, we have a strong, trusting relationship. But something happened recently that I cannot seem to shake, and it has been gnawing at me more than I would like to admit.

My wife’s best friend’s husband, whom I will call “Charlie,” came to her with a very strange request. He told her that a mutual acquaintance of his, “Carl,” a man with a reputation as a ladies’ man, had asked him to approach my wife on his behalf and see if she would be interested in going out with him. According to my wife, she told Charlie that she was absolutely not interested, and later she relayed the whole story to me.

On the surface, I should feel reassured. She did not hide anything from me, and she was clear that she was not interested. Still, I c

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