most of my colleagues are women, I get along with them great. We occasionally socialize a couple of times a year outside work. I would be mortified for anyone to think they were anything more than purely colleagues.
like I wouldn’t really be happy to think of them as friends - not that they’re not lovely people, just that I have my friends who are friends, and these are nice people I work with.
You could not pay me enough money to admit something like this publicly, yet bro just did it for free. Lmao.
This guy is desperate to:
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fuck her
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pretend he doesn’t
If she is meeting him out of work, going to dinner, “cackling” whatever that means.
There’s something in it for her too. Ain’t nobody that naive
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Work wife.
You know what, seal Hormuz up again.
Intersting the way people assume “wife” means sex, and not the more likely analogy that she does all the shitty work to aid his career.
Wife implies sex. The whole thing is usually “we would be fucking if we weren’t married to other people”. They can deny it all they want, but it’s mostly true.
Hey, now. Manipulating someone to do work for you and then taking credit for the whole thing is also fucking!
Take a work wife (which is already a psychotic term), remove the “work” part, and act you invented this new type of relationship…
What are you even talking about!?
Tech morons are always acting like they’ve just discovered fundamental features of the human experience for the very first time.
Oh it is not just tech. Sailing and ships have ship wives which usually just means taking advantage of a newer person that is scared of saying no to a higher rank.
Everyone likes to think they are new and original and good morally while being awful.
They probably did
The expression “Bestie” is pretty weird in Germany, as it pronounced besty-uh and literally translates to “wild animal” or “monster”. “Larissa was a real “Bestie” in bed last night; I’m completely bruised and scratched all over. Glad I have my work wife!”
You dislike Bestieality, and that’s OK.
beast
When you get older your coworkers are work son and work daughter. I’m their work uncle.
Hi you’re actually my situationship that said I couldn’t crash at their house till I found an apartment
Did you take an arrow to the niece?
Otherwise known as “friends without benefits”.
The term “work wife” is so gross.
She was a colleague, and now she’s a friend. It’s fine to have colleague’s and friends but when you start referring to them as some kind of pseudo romantic but professional counterpart it’s just weird.
I just assume they are cheating on any actual spouse either one has.
Yeah any time I’ve heard the term work wife/husband, it was implied they were hooking up.
I’ve had a “work wife” who was a guy and later one who was a girl. I guarantee in both cases I was not hooking up with either one.
Yea every so often one of you shows up to provide cover for the cheaters.
Damn, who hurt you to provide that level of cynicism?
Lol, the term work wife/husband makes me cringe but this is a really fair response.
Work wife refers to more than just a colleague. Friend or bestie would fit, however. Work wife describes a particular type of friendship that is quite common for people working closely together who don’t get romantic.
This is an argument in semantics.
Perhaps you define this relationship as platonic, but a non-zero portion of the public think it implies something else.
I’m in the latter category. “Wife” of any kind involves close emotional connection and probably sexy times.
You can say that a work wife doesn’t include sexy times, and maybe that’s true for almost everyone using the term. But close emotional connection?
Friends are fine. Close friends even. But if you’re relying on anyone besides your wife/spouse for close emotional connection/support, you’re begging for trouble.
How did your wife become your wife in the first place? Likely your emotional connection started first, then the sexual. The same thing can happen with your “work wife”. It’s a risk I’m not willing to take.
Maybe none of this is true for people using the term, maybe they just mean a good friend at work who they click with and can therefore get a lot of work done efficiently together. Ok good, great even, but I recommend using a different word to describe it, because “work wife” implies something else to most people.
Or at least that’s how I feel about all that 🤷♂️
You’re right. I’ve seen people who use this term eventually have an affair more than not. I think people taking offense have a work spouse and know they have these feelings.
Spouse implies sex. We aren’t being a way to assume these things.
You can tell by the fact that straight men never have a “work husband”
What? I’ve totally had work husbands.
I said straight men
Ex fucking zactly.
I’m a straight guy with a work husband?
You mean bromance?
Asked him and a few other work colleagues, but they agree work husband is accurate. Although we technically use a non-english word, work husband is the best english translation.
Maybe it’s an english speaking hangup. I say this as a person who english is thier first language.
Don’t get romantic (usually, but would if they could) fixed it for you ;).
Assuming he’s not cheating with her (emotionally or physically), this is called having a friend.
“Cheating emotionally”? What is that?
like if buddy here was behaving romantically towards his ‘work wife’ without the consent of his actual wife.
What does “behaving romantically” mean, though? Can they go see a movie together? People become emotionally intimate with their friends, and it seems pretty fucked up to claim that’s cheating.
It probably depends on the person/couple. But if he were being emotionally intimate with the work colleague in a way he wasn’t with his actual spouse that could be problematic.
That’s reductive and throws away most of the meaning. A cell mate is not just someone you live with.
Guys don’t have women friends bruh /s
Absolutely detested the only place I’ve worked at that I ever heard this term being used
And … does he have a home wife? A weekend wife? A holiday wife? A doctor’s waiting room wife? A golf course wife?
He has a pornhub account and a gallon of baby oil.
… Oh honey, don’t you? My waiting room wife has some availability; I’ll put you two in touch.
They don’t work together anymore. So….he has a friend?
Friend wife.
Sister wife?
Hard to tell. Sometimes the term gets used as subderfuge so the person can act on feelings they believe may be inappropriate to the relationship from lack of reciprocity, reprisal if it’s against policy at work, or if it violates the terms of another romantic relationship. I don’t know if it’s fair to automatically call the use of the phrase dishonest, but it definitely provides harborage for those who would use it that way. If someone at work referred to me as their work spouse, I’d quickly help them find a better term as nicely as possible but without compromise on that point. I just can’t see a valid, ethical reason not to let other people know where they stand with me. I mean that in the best possible way, and I don’t think “work spouse” accomplishes that in a way that both defines and honors the relationship most effectively.
