Listener email:

My boyfriend doesn’t invite me to hang out with his guy friends when they go out.

These are the fellas he’s known since his schooldays.

He says his mates’ wives don’t come along either, but we’re not married and their wives have already met all the lads many times before at weddings and other social get togethers when they were younger.

 I’m missing out on a big part of who he is.

These friends have shaped his personality and my only experience of them is when he reads out the occasional funny message from their whatsapp group.

I’m well able to take part in slagging and have the craic so I think I’d get along with them fine. He doesn’t seem overly bothered about hanging around with my friends but at least he has met them a few times at my insistence.

I feel like for a relationship to be successful we need to share all aspects of our lives. Tell Me I’m Wrong…….