What do you guys think of work-wife / work-husband?
Turns out this is pretty common and it’s odd. We have this colleague at work who literally calls each other “babe” “b” “love” at work, and they’re both actually married adults with kids. (married to other people & have their own spouse).
Mushiness aside (random “I miss you when you on leave yesterday Le”) they do literally everything together. From going for lunch breaks, attending courses, smoke breaks and they’ll just stick around with each other for like the entire day doing work next to each other and all that.
Not to mention the little play fights which made us all pretty uncomfortable. Sometimes they’ll end up going home together or one will wait for the other at the MRT before entering office together.
One of the kepo colleagues went to ask,” you guys like this your partners okay ah?” to which the guy responded “in the office only mah after 6pm back to real wife liao” and laughed.
And true enough we had an office makan session a few weeks back where we invited our family and all, and they didn’t introduce each other to their real partners at all.
We did catch them giving each other glances but they didn’t talk to each other at all during the makan session, which is odd.
What do you guys think? Are you okay with your partner having a work-wife / work-husband?
Netizens’ comments
- They’re so close but didn’t want to introduce each other to their real life partners = they know it’s wrong. They just don’t want to admit it.
- Not to the degree that you described. I’m sure their respective partners would not be happy to know that that was happening at work.
A friend or even a close friend is okay, but acting basically lovey-dovey with another person is a bigger red flag than China’s. - Cheating with extra steps. The fact that they won’t introduce them to their respective actual spouses means they know it’s wrong.