Please take this short survey on friendship and adultery, and see the results.

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The questions come from Lampe 1985, who interestingly argues that the lack of a social category for "opposite-sex friendship with a married person" (because it's often seen as adulterous) might "actually be causally related to at least some adultery". Lampe also says:

There have been historical instances when close friendships, both same-sex and cross-sex, have been discouraged for fear they could develop into sɛҳuąƖ relationships. Such instances, however, are reflective of Jansenism (heresy) and are contrary to the original and earlier tradition.

Yes. Affairs often start out emotional only -- especially for the woman. Think about it: women naturally crave attention. When a man is giving them copious amounts of attention, care, kindness -- that's as alluring for a woman as a scantily clad woman is to a man. Men and women are different. They operate differently.

And co-workers are forced to spend 8 hours every day together. How can a woman's husband compete with that? He has to work a job -- somewhere outside the home, where his wife is not. But that woman's "work husband" (modern term) or close male friend at work, gives her up to 8 hours of attention a day.

As a wise man once said, "if it weren't for the fact that men & women can successfully produce offspring together, a strong case could be made that men and women are 2 different species."

"Men and women are basically equal" indeed! Far from it.

If I were to translate the oxymoronic, socialistic Covid mantra (“together apart”) to gender/marriage, the result might be ...“equally different” or “uniquely alike”.     What a world we live in. 

"if it weren't for the fact that men & women can successfully produce offspring together, a strong case could be made that men and women are 2 different species."

Funny it's called "gender theory" when really it should be called "species theory". The word "gender" derives from genus. Human is the genus; male and female are its species.
Listen to Fr. Trauner's sermon on "male and female He created them". @7:10: "Other cultures (non-Christian) segregate men and women, even in undue ways. The Church does not at the fundamental level."