It happens outside the USA too. I'm unconvinced America is so wildly different. With utmost respect to your personal situation, about which I know only what yo

It happens outside the USA too. I'm unconvinced America is so wildly different. With utmost respect to your personal situation, about which I know only what you've said above, I would imagine you'll find it changes as you get older. Dating in your mid-twenties is not the same as even in your mid-thirties. It's not that unexpected for young guys to have big friend groups that include single women, and for people to hang out fairly often and fluidly. As those groups settle down, go their own way and generally dwindle it gets harder to just "hang out" one-on-one with members of the opposite sex if you have a serious girlfriend. Jealousy and insecurity are considered normal and entirely acceptable by women, as are things like banning boyfriends from seeing former friends, rummaging through private messages (including business messages) to try and spot interactions with females, and generally treating any kind of interaction with females that they don't personally know about/condone as if it were actually cheating. Mike Pence is an old married guy. His "never eat alone with a woman" rule may seem baffling to you now, but it doesn't surprise me one bit.