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Work Spouse Research Paper

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What's a Work Spouse ?

It's that one person at work that you gravitate towards, to perhaps share a meme, or notify when there's cake in the conference room. That one person you share an inside joke with via text during a pointless 40 minute meeting. C'mon you know what I mean... you're work spouse.

Now, it's cool when your single and it can develop into something. But what happens if you're already taken; might your relationship with your work spouse give your significant other cause for concern?

No one wants to be cheated on: it's a ridiculing, heartbreaking, and energy draining to say the least. Being deceived is painful and if you're not careful it can cause you to grow subsequently jaded about both future partners and relationships. …show more content…

(provided that you don't catch an STD or get knocked up of course). It could add a generally healthy/refreshing twist to the mundane bullshit (provided those involved are firstly fulfilled in their current relationship and mature enough to respect boundaries).

An emotional relationship with a person, say a co-worker, or classmate channels some of the energy, creativity, and enthusiasm you'd normally would invest in your partner/spouse into someone else because of your given circumstances. For example, you and a co-worker share an organic interest in a specific comic series, one no one else understands. In addition to this hobby, you both share a similar sense of humor as well as other happen to have more mutual interests. I think it's fine because I believe that platonic friendships outside of a relationship (male and female) are healthy and necessary.

I'd go crazy without a work spouse. In fact when I first start a new job, after I get the hang of things, one of the first things I do is vet people for their potential as work spouse (male or female). To reiterate, you're walking a slippery slope if you seek a work spouse and also feel unfulfilled in your relationship: "emotional cheating", gone awry may very well lay the foundation for a sexual …show more content…

Money's a touchy subject, and one that I'll get into eventually. However money spent on another that jeopardizes a couples financial goals hat is earned shared and accounted for between money that is earned and accounted for between a couple, is wired to someone else for their pleasure or needs, then the best interest of the couple as a unit becomes jeopardized. So paying for your work spouse's lunches, or overly spending on a birthday or Holiday gift, would certainly pose a threat to an existing relationship. But it's a topic and asset that should only be administered and spent by the couple needs/desires/plans, not the needs of others. Financial goals, even future vacations planned together in a dating situation, create incentives for a couple to remain monogamous or exclusive, so any leaks in the plan would sabotage a couple's plans, goals, and ultimate

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