Bottom line is that you are fooling yourself if you think that prolonged unsupervised contact between attractive heterosexuals of the opposite sex, regardless of religious beliefs, will result in a platonic relationship. We aren't built that way.
We’ll just have to agree to disagree. I have spent plenty of “unsupervised” time with my male friends and it has always remained platonic, both before after and often during, any time any of us have been involved in a relationship.
After I left him, my ex husband went around town claiming I left him for the man who is now my husband. Of course this was extremely laughable because I didn’t meet him until well after I had left the other dork and met him at a time that another relationship was the very last thing on my mind. he enjoyed humiliating me and some of my business associates by questioning which one I was sleeping with that week - when all along he was the only one in the marriage with a track record of sleeping around.
Says you. I don’t have any such problems like you describe maintaining female friendships. Since I’m into extreme sports and my isn’t, I’ve traveled all over the country with a woman who does share my interests. The closest thing to a flirtation that has occurred is that she claims if something does happen to my marriage, I’m taken.