I'm just, uh... I mean... wut?
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2026
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I'm bald so I don't remember ... is that what hair is supposed to look like?
No, that's what denial looks like
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
Work wife.
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
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?
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.
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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!
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.
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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.
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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.
Damnit.
I got the secretary wife of the waiting room wife, apparently, there's some kind of hold up.
Absolutely detested the only place I've worked at that I ever heard this term being used
work wife
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