Of Mice and Married Men

What are your thoughts on continuing to be friends with members of the opposite sex once you are married?
I definitely have my opinions on the matter, but they appear to differ from the opinions of some married gentlemen I know.

Yes, I do think you can continue to be friends after you've gotten married. I mean seriously, you can't just stop talking to half of the population just because you have been wed. But I also think that the friendship can not be the same as it was while they were single. I don't know about the rest of ya'll but I am just a naturally flirty person, that's my typical way of communicating with men, and that is not appropriate when said man is married. You can definitely still be friends and still care about the person, but you should not mess with the line between friendly and flirty.

This concern of mine stems from an experience or two that I've had in the last few weeks. I will explain the most pertinent one: I know I've mentioned Mr. Wickham before - when I said I went to his wedding about a month ago - and I promise that you will hear his story soon enough, but suffice it to say that we had a kind of fling back in March, then he got engaged and I was crushed. I just barely fully got over him right before his wedding. And then you'll never guess what has happened:
I have a class with him this semester.

We had signed up for this class together back in March, and I had completely forgotten about that fact until he texted me the day before classes started to make sure that I was still in the class with him. After a mild freak out, frantic attempts to change my schedule, and him texting me multiple times begging me not to drop it, I resigned myself to the fact that I was going to be in a class with Wickham. I was bothered that he was begging me to be in this class. I just wanted to shout, "YOU'RE MARRIED!!!" It would be slightly weird, but still fine, if he was talking to any other girl, but this was not so fine because not that long ago we were emotionally involved. So I felt uncomfortable about it. But it has turned out to be fine. We sit on the back row next to a rather pleasant fellow and the three of us talk through a good portion of the class. I promise that I have zero emotional attachment left for him. But I am glad we're still able to be friends, or at least friendly. But it's such a strange situation. I just really don't think that he knows how to be a married man yet. He needs to work on that.

-The Friendly Kisser