To the partnered 'fistas: when you're talking about your spouse/SO/whomever to your co-workers, especially co-workers whom you're fairly friendly with, do you refer to said partner by name or as "my wife/husband" or whatever title you may use? I've noticed in my world that people generally say "my wife" (I work mostly with guys) instead of their names. I myself refer to Hubby as Hubby, but I've always thought myself weird in terms of using people's names.
Am I noticing something weird, or am I interpreting something average in a weird way?
My bosses are married to sisters. Once I said "your wife" to one boss (telling him she stopped by and what she said), because sometimes I get the wives mixed up (they look a lot alike to me).
eta: Of course I wasn't talking about
my
wife, so not exactly what you're talking about.
Sweet baby Jesus, I'm bored.
Seriously, this is freaky. Can't get to google. Can't get to CNN. Only b.org.
Did the revolution come and no one told me?
If the person has met my partner, or we're particularly friendly (and thus I've talked about him a reasonable amount), I say his name. Otherwise, "my husband."
"The Wife" is right out, IMO.
"The Wife" is right out, IMO.
I hear that one a lot. "Dude, will the wife let you go out Friday?" or "The wife and I went to the movies last night."
Edit: Does anyone else but me object to being called "the better half"? It took me ages to get Hubby to stop calling me his better half. I'll be his other half, but I'm not better. And he keeps trying to use it as some sort of compliment, especially when he's complaining about behavior that he doesn't think is worthy of me.
Seriously, this is freaky. Can't get to google. Can't get to CNN. Only b.org.
Maybe your DNS servers are down?
Funny thing. I'm watching MST3K: The Starfighters, and one of the characters in the movie referred to "the wife". One of the 'bots responded with, "The wife will be happy to see the me!"
Can someone please come to my office and fill out the IT E-Records forms with the accompanying GxP Predicate Rules Analyses please? I'd pay you.
Seriously, this is freaky. Can't get to google. Can't get to CNN. Only b.org.
That happened to me before Xmas Dana.
