I just had some drinks in the city with a longtime female friend who is engaged to a male friend of mine. Would be pretty sad and unnecessary if I couldn't hang out with her anymore after her marriage without her soon-to-be husband being there too. I'd say that if you don't trust each other you shouldn't marry in the first place.
Pence has been a politician a long time now. If for no other reason, not letting himself get into a situation some political rival would misconstrue for political advantage, it makes sense for him or any other politician to be careful of whom they are privately alone with. Of course, publicly alone such someone like Merkel or May, as they wouldn't actually be alone if they had a one-on-one meeting, is another thing.
so if he became President he wouldn't meet Theresa May alone? What a kook.
Yeah, I don't really care about whether or not Pence wants to dine with other women, but this would be really awkward if he meets May or Merkel alone. But his first Lieutenant Governor and some of Indiana's statewide elected officials during his tenure were women, so I suppose it isn't a huge problem.
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Do you really think they'd be alone? I doubt either would be doing the cooking, and there would be the guards of both within earshot.