Healthy relationships require trust and personal independence.

This woman enjoys spending time with her single friends.

However, her boyfriend feels upset that she doesn’t bring him along.

So they kept arguing over trust issues.

Read the full story below for all the details.

AITA for wanting to hang out with my friends alone?

I (22F) am dating a 24M, and we’ve been dating for 2 months.

Recently, we have gotten into a lot of arguments.

Because, sometimes, I want to go out with my friends from before I knew him without him.

My boyfriend finds it to be an issue.

This woman does not entertain guys hitting on her in bars.

He says I’m not taking him with me when I go out with my friends.

He also says my friends are single.

Sometimes, we go to bars to have a few drinks.

There shouldn’t be any trust issues here.

The last time I went to a bar, I got hit on, but I said I have a boyfriend, so I’m not interested.

That was it.

But her boyfriend doesn’t trust her spending time with her single friends.

My boyfriend has a big issue with this though and thinks I’m being disrespectful.

He thinks it’s abnormal to not bring him everywhere when I go out.

He also thinks that me having single friends will somehow manipulate me into wanting to be single.

I have never heard of such a thing in my life.

I had plenty of single friends while I was in a long-term relationship in the past.

So now, she’s wondering if she is wrong in this situation.

He does bring me out with his friends though.

But it’s a group thing with girls and guys in his friend group.

It’s just girls in mine. I don’t know.

Am I the jerk for wanting to spend time with only my friends and not him?

Let’s find out what others have to say about this.

This user makes a valid point.

This one makes sense, too.

He’s not a man, says this person.

This guy thinks her boyfriend is insecure.

Finally, short and straightforward.

Boyfriends are not an automatic +1 to girls’ nights out.

If you enjoyed that story, read this one about a mom who was forced to bring her three kids with her to apply for government benefits, but ended up getting the job of her dreams.