kvanlaan
Puritan Board Doctor
Most cases of adultery are not with total strangers but with people that we already know and think are pretty decent.
If eating a meal alone is unpleasant, then this means that the main reason for adding a man who is not your husband at a meal would be for the purpose of social pleasantness.
Most wives who are mothers can rarely even get out alone without the kids and when my wife does, she is happy to have solitude and takes a book. I sure don't want her, nor does she want me, to be alone in a socially pleasant setting with the opposite sex.
In the US the divorce rate is very, very high and I think the rate of adultery is also very high. Therefore, there are very good reasons for having strict rules about the patterns of social behavior that would be considered appropriate or inappropriate for married couples.
And maybe this is just a lower socio-economic family-guy standpoint, but going out to dinner is a special thing and not something one does everyday.
Preach it , Pergy!