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The Matt Walsh Show

Can Men And Women REALLY Be Friends?

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News, News Commentary

4.727.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

How do you win at life? How do you navigate modern dating? These are big questions worth addressing. Earlier this week on X, I made this point: “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, though not everyone agrees… - - - Today's Sponsor: Ascension Press - You can join Crux with 90 days of premium access to the Ascension app for just $4.99*. Visit https://ascensionpress.com/WALSH to download the app and get the free Crux Action Plan to prepare for the challenge and track your progress through Lent. *Offer excludes current subscribers. - - - Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://dailywire.com/subscribe 🍿 Real History with Matt Walsh available now, exclusively on DailyWire+!               Watch now: https://dwplus.watch/RealHistory               Subscribe here: https://dwplus.watch/RealHistorySubscribe 🍿 The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin is now streaming exclusively on DailyWire+               Watch now: https://dwplus.watch/ThePendragon               Subscribe here: https://pendragonseries.com - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.3

the show talking about, you know, the things that matter in life, as we so often do, marriage, children,

0:39.5

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

0:46.3

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

0:53.2

a married person simply should not have an opposite

0:55.1

sex friend who is not also a friend of their spouse. And even then, there's no scenario where

0:58.7

the spouse and the friend should be hanging out alone. These are the most basic boundaries.

1:04.5

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

1:08.4

That's obviously true. I've also said that kind of thing many times.

1:13.1

Plenty of people did not agree. There are a lot of comments, a lot of people responding to it,

1:16.3

so we're going to go through and read some of them now. In fact, I'm going to read a few responses,

1:19.9

a few comments, and then I'll offer a general response to all of them together.

1:24.9

So, real Klopek writes, to prove Matt's point in just about every example of

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