What is wrong with a platonic friendship between a man & woman?

People naturally make the assumption that sexual relation gets drag into the scene as well.

Been to my grandparents place & popped out for dinner. The topic kept reverring to a gossip thriving in their neighbourhood. This married man & married woman got so close to each other that they actually hold hands when they go for outings.

Those idiotic aunties, who have nothing to do, hang around the RC office(the both of them work there) all day. Just to see if there's anything to confirm their rumours. It got so bad that the Wife hung around the husband everywhere he goes.

Since they belong to the RC they organise activities for the senior citizens in that neighbourhood. My grandparents dislike coping at home all day long with only the TV as companion. Like as we do, we can't be with them everyday. So they found their place in the activities going on there. Thus the bloody aunties opportunity to generate even more rumours about this odd couple.

Their suspicion isn't groundless though. When they bring groups of senior citizens out, they practically live in their own world. They hold hands. Imagine an old man holding your hand wherever you went. Carrying your daughter when she tried to run about. Feeding your daughter & urge you to eat. That's when these aunties imagination gets worked up. & they did it so openly for all to see.

Now, rumours have reached the Wife's ears & she decided to be her Husband's shadow. No more hand holding, no more daughter to play with. They behave as individuals now. He's aloof to the wife too. They don't even look a couple to me. I've been a filial granddaughter once and accompanied my grandma on a trip. When she pointed that pairing, I thought "how odd" for the Husband never did look at the Wife even once.

My grandpa commented once he doesn't blame the Husband for straying(if he did indeed). B'coz the Wife never did bother to doll herself up. I saw how she was & I have no choice but to agree. Compared to a younger woman who takes time to groom herself, a woman who lets herself go is of course the pits. What has a dowdy aunty got compared to a modern stylish woman?

I'm not condoning the action of the Husband if he did stray. Yet the blame isn't totally on him. Men will always be men. They are visual creatures. They need visual stimulation & pleasure.

He may love me now b'coz I'm still young & agreeable for fun. Come twenty years later, I can strip down in front of him & he wont feel anything if I don't keep myself the way I am. Actually I think most men won't even now. But that's the way a guy operates. Visual stimulation works.

Not every guy's like that but all would appreciate a wife's effort to groom herself for him.

I wont like coming home to cranky husband who wears a tattered singlet & shorts everyday. I'll tire of subjects always revolving around the kids. But that's what most women would do once she settles down & have kids.

There are long lasting marriages whereby Husbands & Wives stay in love. But thats b'coz they keep up their passion for each other. I wont be able to keep up a romnace with an old man who always look like he just got out of bed. Neither can a man tolerate that of me.

Women: Keep yourself groomed. Tie the man down if he's good.