I am a married man and we have a young child. My wife understands that sometimes I need to go out with a friend to have a few beers. She does not ask me where I am going or who I am meeting and since she shows so much respect on a couple of occasions I've asked her to join me when I'm out having a few beers with a friend.

I respect my wife - I do not lie to her and on the few occasions where I drank too much she did not nag.

This past year I befriended a younger guy who is in a relationship with a woman who ... how shall I put it? ..... is well below him in the looks department. He was a Calvin Klein model and she is slightly overweight.

One evening when I was asleep she called me and asked me why her BF had not come home yet. I told her that I had no idea. "But isn't he with you?" she asked. I had no other option but to tell her that I had no idea where he was. This happened another time last week.

The following day she seemed angry at me. She sent me messages that did not really make any sense. I replied that I do not want to get involved in any problems they might have. Now, this guy, was browsing women on a dating site, last time we went out and I told him that I did not feel that it was right.

The problem is that his girlfriend will not let go of him. And he does not seem to have the balls to tell her to get out of his life. She must know that he does not love her and that he is seeing other women. But she prefers to live a lie. From what he tells me, she manipulates him. He may have done a couple of things that are illegal and she keeps blackmailing him that if he leaves her she will go to the police. The things which he did have nothing to do with her.

If I were in his position I'd become very angry and if I had to live with a woman whom I did not like just because she is blackmailing me - I'd eventually explode.

What do other people think?