Pence wont eat with a women who isnt his wife?

[MichMary]

73. Totally agree with you

Many years ago a young, single woman was promoted to head my husband's accounting department. It was a small department with a couple of female accountants and a few more female accounting clerks, and him.

He felt he had to go out to a bar alone with her and drink because he couldn't go to the women's Tupperware parties, and that sort of thing. Kind of a bonding thing. We live in a small town, and I will not tolerate the small town gossip machine creating rumors that will be embarrassing to me and to my children.
It was so utterly disrespectful of me that I can still work up a fair amount of anger over it. It was a very big deal to me.

Something must have happened to change his mind, because he apologized to me, and never did it again.

He does occasionally travel to meetings with her, and that isn't a problem, because it is different. The coziness of a dinner, or sitting shoulder to shoulder at a bar is a situation that can look like something it isn't.

There is plenty to criticize Pence about, but this isn't it.