Assuming he’s not cheating with her (emotionally or physically), this is called having a friend.
Guys don’t have women friends bruh /s
“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.
If your wife/husband would love someone else, but didn’t act on it, would you be fine with that? If not, then you understand emotionally cheating because that is why you don’t like it.
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.
They don’t work together anymore. So….he has a friend?
Friend wife.
Sister wife?
… family business.
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.
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.
How about work mommy? I’ve had bosses who basically treated me like one of their kids.
Work wife.
Man, I’m so glad they got caught.
Book the dinner. Spill the tea. Crack the plates.
That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates!
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
This insult has the highest ratio of courtesy and eloquence to psychosocial damage in the history of insults.
I’ve never gotten it as an effective insult, tbh. It boils down to:
I wish I knew half of you better, and I’m a crab about some of you
No? If he doesn’t like them as well as they deserve, then the “problem” is with him, not them. It’s definitely not welcoming, but it’s not exactly insulting if I’m reading it right.
Dig the stone, mine the ore, craft the metal!
Wait until you discover the “regular wife” that keeps being your wife even outside work.
Not in the employees code of conduct. Report that to HR
especially the “outside work” bit, have they been STEALING work hours from their employer??
The guy probably has a regular husband, which is why he felt comfortable posting this.
This is LinkedIn we’re talking about here. These people comfortably post the dumbest, most insane shit all of the time.
This was where my thought went
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
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.
I’m sure his SO doesn’t see her as an emotional affair threat.
"You have a female friend? Okay, you can hang out with her. And you can have fun. But you better not be opening up and sharing any vulnerabilities with each other! And don’t you dare share any warm, heartfelt moments! I’ll know!"
work wife
You know what, seal Hormuz up again.
Dunno why I was totally expecting the Madagascar penguins for some reason.
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 👐
My work wife was a tiny Sicilian guy named Bruno. He doesn’t work for us any more, but I still miss our walks into town to get lunch.
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
