His Wife Falsely Accused Their Friend Of Having An Affair With Him, So He Wants To Apologize To This Woman

This 39-year-old man and his 35-year-old wife have a 40-year-old female friend with whom they both spend a lot of time.
At first, their friend was his wife’s friend, and she’s divorced. But over the last year, he’s gotten quite close with this woman, too.
However, he’s never hung out with this woman without his wife present, and their relationship is purely platonic.
He has never been romantic or flirty with their friend, as he’s not interested in her like that.
“Recently our friend reached out to me about a job opportunity that is in my area of passion as currently I am working in a job I don’t necessarily love,” he explained.
“Because of this, I’ve had more text coversations with the friend than normal. Specifically, when she first let me know about the opportunity, it was in a group message with my wife and my responses were very excited and thanking her for getting me an “in” with this job.”
“My wife started texting me outside the group message that her friend is obviously the person I’m in love with since I was replying to the friend’s texts about the job and had ignored what my wife had texted me separately (I honestly didn’t see my wife’s text).”
His wife figured he was intentionally ignoring her, so she instantly jumped to accusing their friend of trying to take him away.
Later on, his wife told him she was going to tell their friend to never speak to them again, given her homewrecker status.

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His wife was falsely accusing their friend of having an affair with him, and their friend has never been inappropriate with him.
He snatched his wife’s phone out of her hands to prevent her from doing something crazy, and he didn’t want his wife to blow up their friendship over an untrue allegation.
“She took this as I’m trying to keep her from “finding the truth” vs. I just don’t want to embarrassingly bring someone into this argument,” he said.
“She ended up meeting up with her friend the next day and asking her to her face if we were having an affair; of course, this offended her friend, but she was understanding and was truthful in saying “absolutely not.”
His wife still refused to listen to the truth, and in the week that followed his wife confronting their friend, his wife claimed to uncover clues of the affair that never happened.
Every clue his wife insisted she found was such a stretch he couldn’t believe it. His wife kept insisting the affair happened and then grilled their friend over it.
Now, their friend wants nothing to do with the two of them since his wife has been harassing her nonstop.
He’s been trying to get his wife to see reality while apologizing to their poor friend, but his wife won’t issue an apology to this woman.
This all blew up three weeks ago, and he feels completely humiliated by his wife’s actions. Additionally, he’s furious with his wife, as her behavior caused him to lose out on the job opportunity their friend initially brought to him.
What’s weighing on him is that their friend is entitled to an apology since she didn’t do anything to deserve this drama.
“I know it’s not my place to make amends for my wife, but this is someone that I am friends with, and it pains me that something false and stupid is going to end our friendship,” he continued.
“Also, I want to make sure she knows I’m not a piece of crap cheater because my wife was saying to her, “If it’s not you, it’s someone.”
“I can honestly say that is 100% false. Yes, there’s also the selfish aspect of the job opportunity that I still hope for from her.”
What advice do you have for him?
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