I 29M, married for a decade, two kids and a very successful life on paper. My relationship has been bumpy since the start, we come from different cultures and backgrounds, to be where we are at has taken a lot of work and long night arguments. Since our kids were born, our relationship became parenting first and this put a strain on us, we tried to rekindle and slowly got back there, kids got to day care and I started to meet people, many couples who became regulars and kind of family, I clicked with many dads but especially one dude, who became my best mate. I was a very lonely guy, just the family focus one, me being unhappy in my marriage and my partner often bringing up issues, made me turn to this new friend as emotional support and became something that I looked forward to interacting everyday, my partner noticed how happy I am and didn’t have any trouble at first, it also helped our relationship at some point as I was more energetic, I probably needed that outsider. My partner has struggled to find always friends, and at some point she told me is jealous of me and my friend, it’s been couple years of the same dynamic, my friend and I are very close, just to clarify, platonic, just two guys having a great time, my wife got paranoid as she believes he’s been washing her brain that my relationship with him is better than our marriage, and everyone notices how happy I am when he is around, he never mentions such things to me, apparently just to her. She found some conversations between us, where we joke about life, sex, and shit and have fun at ourselves speaking like we are a couple, just for fun. My partner got paranoid and forbade me speaking to this friend, I am lost, feel devastated for my friendship ending this way, and my marriage being as it is, feel like life should be devoted just to her, and no possibility for any close relationship with another dude, anyone had any similar experience?