Patrick’s Rants

I’ve come to realize that I have a “work wife” ¹. I wasn’t looking for one, but on the Today Show, they talked about the concept of the “work spouse”. This is someone that you talk to and even spend more time with that one’s own spouse. It might even involve severe flirtation, but in the end it’s completely platonic - especially when your spouse knows about the work spouse. Funny this is, even if she were interested in me I could not see myself with her in that way.

Which, of course brings me to the real topic of this post. The other night my wife was visiting her ill grandmother in Phoenix and I had a trip that was scheduled to end fairly early on Saturday. I decided that I might be hungry when I was done with work and suggest to the WS that we “do something” when I got back from the trip. The something that I had in mind was dinner. My WS thought that a movie might even be in the cards - something that I knew would get me into trouble even if nothing happened. though nothing would ever happen.

She made several boisterous comments about dinner, even going as far as to sing “Call me” in front of other co-workers. I even heard from another “loud mouth” co-worker who asked me how the weekend went asking if I had gone to a movie or what I had done over the weekend. Of course that makes me wonder what else WS has relayed to others.

It is because of this that I’m glad I haven’t shared all my completely heart wrenching life stories. So is she really my work wife if I don’t tell her everything and if I carefully walk the line with my real wife? I carefully chose not to do the things that would have made my wife jealous; I had an uneasy feeling about them to begin with, but the WS chose to spread the “it might happen” rumor anyway. I wonder where that leaves me…

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