Work wife.
Man, I’m so glad they got caught.
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.
How about work mommy? I’ve had bosses who basically treated me like one of their kids.
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.
You can tell by the fact that straight men never have a “work husband”
Ex fucking zactly.
What? I’ve totally had work husbands.
I said straight men
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.
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.
Don’t get romantic (usually, but would if they could) fixed it for you ;).
Otherwise known as “friends without benefits”.
And … does he have a home wife? A weekend wife? A holiday wife? A doctor’s waiting room wife? A golf course wife?
… Oh honey, don’t you? My waiting room wife has some availability; I’ll put you two in touch.
Damnit.
I got the secretary wife of the waiting room wife, apparently, there’s some kind of hold up.
He has a pornhub account and a gallon of baby oil.
When you get older your coworkers are work son and work daughter. I’m their work uncle.
Did you take an arrow to the niece?
Hi you’re actually my situationship that said I couldn’t crash at their house till I found an apartment
You know what, seal Hormuz up again.
i have great news
You heard it here first folks 👆. People ask whose idea it was and if I’m perfectly honest it was my idea. People say it all the time I have the best ideas of the history of thoughts. It can only good think if the thinking is I’m doing it 👐
Dunno why I was totally expecting the Madagascar penguins for some reason.
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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Take a work wife (which is already a psychotic term), remove the “work” part, and act like 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
work wife
Isn’t this just describing a “friend”. Idk I have none
This is describing having a girlfriend except the girlfriend is married to someone else.
You could not pay me enough money to admit something like this publicly, yet bro just did it for free. Lmao.
I’m bald so I don’t remember … is that what hair is supposed to look like?
No, that’s what denial looks like
The expression “Bestie” is pretty weird in Germany, as it is 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!”
beast
You dislike Bestieality, and that’s OK.
LOL. Beast mode is best mode?
I mean you can just call her a “very good friend”? Or “one of my best friends”. I am sure this will have a positive impact on your real wive’s psychology too if you are married.
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.
