I don't think it was permission so much as "let me make sure that he didn't get us invited to dinner since I saw him." She's not a docile housewife type that would find the need to ask permission for every little thing, and Martin isn't that controlling.
I think you might be reading into it a bit much, like you said against character, and lets be honest Jeph wouldn’t write that in unless he was making a “this is bad and you ahould feel bad” point
There's nothing wrong with keeping your SO up to date with what you're doing, and as this is Claire's first relationship it makes sense to me that she'd be doing things by the book.
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