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Posted: 2024-08-31T13:31:23Z | Updated: 2024-08-31T13:31:23Z
The "work wife" / "work husband" dynamic can get messy, and this story about a man getting caught trashing his wife's homemade lunches every day to eat the food his "work wife" cooks him is absolutely wild.

Here's the full story : "Me (female, 27) and my husband (male, 34) have been married for three years, but we dated four years prior. He recently got a promotion at his company and moved to a different department. In this department, he recently started interacting with a (female, 24). I dislike her and have from the start."

"Every time I'm there, she makes sure to call him her work husband. Or she will do simple things such as making him food or giving him extra tight hugs."

"But my breaking point was last week when he came home with the food I made him. When I asked him why his lunch bag was still full of what I had made him in the morning, he said she had made him food, and he didn't want to seem rude and waste it."

"So I ignored it until he threw away the food I made him. I woke up at 6 a.m. just to make him his favorite food. But ever since then, this has been happening every day, and it started to get annoying."

"Until today, I decided not to make him lunch. He came downstairs in the morning to me making breakfast and asked me where his lunch was. I said I didn't make him one because it was going to go to waste anyway. He started arguing that I was being petty over a little thing. I tried to discuss how I felt, and he went over it. So am I the asshole for not making him food?" Yikes. People in the comments had a wide range of responses to the husband's actions. "Let him make his own food," user Artistic_AD753 wrote.

"My wife only makes mine occasionally. If he doesn't like it, tough luck, he needs to realize he's upsetting you."

"I think in plain words you need to tell your husband that you don't want him interacting with her at all unless it's required for business and only as minimum as necessary," user SuccySuccubi wrote.

"Her behavior, from consistently cooking for him to calling him her work husband and giving him tight hugs, are extremely inappropriate. He should not be more worried about hurting a coworker's feelings than disrespecting his marriage. He didn't want to hurt her feelings by not eating her food, but he has no issue with throwing his own wife's food away in front of you. His coworker's behavior is a direct threat to his marriage, and it is his responsibility to set and enforce the boundaries to protect the marriage."

User fubar_68 felt even more strongly, and called for a divorce.

"I would divorce him if I was in your shoes. He's having an emotional affair. He's disrespectful to his wife, and she's rubbing the affair in your face, and he's not doing anything to stop it. I would tell him you are seeing a lawyer. Start doing divorce research, print it out, and let him find it."

"It's essential to understand the dynamics of workplace relationships, and the fact of the matter is, respect and boundaries are key, both of which are currently missing in your situation," user DaisyRebeccaa wrote.

"You have every right to feel uncomfortable with this arrangement. The concept of a work spouse should never eclipse the sanctity of a real marital relationship, and the intimate nature of preparing daily meals is pushing well beyond reasonable work friend behavior."

This user shared how she handled her husband having a "work wife."

"My husband has a coworker, and they are good friends. I know she is happily married, and nothing is happening, but everyone, including my mom, started calling them work wife and husband," user Objective-Scarcity68 . "My husband came home laughing at me about it, and I explained I didn't like it. It expresses a level of intimacy that should be reserved for only the spouse. He stopped it immediately."

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