Work Husbands What’s in it For Me?
Posted on February 21st, 2006by Michael Gray in Random Thoughts
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Thankfully I don’t work in an office environment so it’s not my problem, but it seems having a “workplace husband” is all the rage now. Now I know I’m gonna get in trouble for this but heck I’m all about stirring up trouble so here goes.
OK we all know women and men are different, and let’s be honest women talk more. I’ve heard Dr Phil say women use 9000 words a day and men use 5000, but couldn’t find it on the web, but here’s another site that says almost the same thing. So I could see some men wanting their wives to have work husbands, because heck that’s some else who will listen to some of those 9000 words for them, but I don’t see what’s in it for the guy? From where I sit being a work husband has way more downside than upside. First off you’ve got to listen to your own spouses 9000 words, and then your taking on a portion of some other guys 9000 words. Worst part of the whole deal, there’s no eventual reward for listening to someone kvetch, whine, moan, groan, discuss, validate, bond, commiserate, relate, or drone on without end about. So please let’s just be friends and put an end to this workplace husband nonsense.
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February 22nd, 2006 at 9:32 am
This is exactly what causes women to cheat with the guy at work. They need to feed their word hunger and guys often take full advantage of the moment. They think “Man, I have to listen to this? … I might as well get me some”! ;-0
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:55 am
February 22nd, 2006 at 2:05 pm
LOL, well, lucky for mine, what I have to say is actually useful for him at times.
But, I’d bet I double the talk time of an average woman. Poor, poor Jake.
February 23rd, 2006 at 9:50 pm
Too funny! This has been the source of some discussion in my house because I work from home and my husband has a work “spouse”. He listens to her (and she apparently talks a lot) and he has a “rescue” role with her.
I understand this stuff I think because I was one of 5 women out of an entire floor of just IT male employees. All programmers and web designers…and I noticed when they needed a woman to talk to, that was my cue to pull up and listen. Men talk, but not always with words. I learned to watch other cues from their actions, jokes, and esp. when they took breaks to de-stress.
I was single then and never got involved with any of them until I left the company. Last year I married one of them
June 27th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
I have been working for a company for about a year, and there is a guy that I work with and I could not figure out what my relationship was with him,,then I googled work husband and it hit the nail on the head. It is exactly the word for it. I don’t know if he thinks of it that way. He is having marriage problems right now and I have been trying to be there to talk to and to help him thru this, I want his marriage to stay together, my husband says that we are “buddies” and he doesn’t like that I have this close relationship with another man and I have to say that I wouldn’t like it if he had this kind of realtionship with a woman at work,,I understand his feelings,,I do, but there is no chance of me leaving him for this guy,,,it isn’t like that at all. I am just glad to have figured out what I was feeling for this guy at work because I have never had this kind of relationship before.