Carolyn Hax: Wife seethes at his lack of boundaries with clingy friend

Dear Carolyn: I have a friend, “Gary,” who is from my hometown. My wife doesn’t like Gary all that much, mostly because she finds him annoying and clingy. She has no objection to my continuing my own friendship with him, and she can be polite to him in small doses, but is no longer interested in being friends with him, too.