# My husband is leaving me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 8, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-is-leaving-me/367812 "2006-08-08T04:01:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-is-leaving-me/367812/21 "2006-08-09T18:01:27Z")
My work-husband, who was also my boss (talk about Freudian!) died of a massive MI last year…he had quit our “home” and gone on to bigger and better things. \ I miss him. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-is-leaving-me/367812/22 "2006-08-09T19:27:24Z")
My work-husband is my boss as well. Our relationship has cooled considerably and I have been told by his other work-wife (and my lesbian work wife - it’s a complicated triangle) that he is having personal problems with his real wife and may have had to knock our relationship back a bit. My husband also gets a bit bristled sometimes. We’re just very comfortable together. I can order at a restaurant for him, and he for me. I got pregnant at the same time as his wife (our children are two weeks apart). I think it has really gotten under his wife’s skin. I don’t think it helps that people have thought we were married before (new coworkers, restaurant staff) and when I turn something in to him that he is really happy about he’ll say “this is why I love you.” So now I’m in the work-spouse dog house, at least until his wife is happy again. Maybe that’s why our relationship works - I know his marriage is the most important relationship in his life. There is none of that sexual tension or jealousy. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-is-leaving-me/367812/23 "2006-08-09T20:16:34Z")
Hang in there, **Campion**. He obviously doesn’t deserve you. I know it doesn’t seem possible right now, but you _will_ find another work-husband someday! You seem like a witty, intelligent woman – any guy would be lucky to have you as a work-wife. Just give yourself plenty of time to heal, so that you don’t wind up with a rebound work-husband. (Oh, and when you _do_ find a new one, see if he has any friends who need a job in Northern Virginia, 'k? I want a work-husband, too! ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-is-leaving-me/367812/24 "2006-08-10T01:36:18Z")
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya] I have a man-bride as well. We hooked up in college. One day we were hanging some drywall in a remodel home we were working on. He was wrestling with a full sheet, holding it up with one hand and screwing it to the studs with the other. Out of the blue I said, from very close behind him, “You know? I _really_ wouldn’t like to butt-fuck you.” That sheet of drywall had to be discarded. [/QUOTE] What happened to the dry wall? ---
**Author:** ![Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Throatwarbler_Mangrove)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-is-leaving-me/367812/25 "2006-08-10T01:46:13Z")
Point of clarification please: is **Campion** the rich, hot lawyer? Or am I confusing her with another poster? ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-is-leaving-me/367812/26 "2006-08-10T04:02:31Z")
[QUOTE=kawaiitentaclebeast] Point of clarification please: is **Campion** the rich, hot lawyer? Or am I confusing her with another poster? [/QUOTE] **Campion** is the _rich_, _hot_, and _ **currently single** _ lawyer. (How _do_ these rumors get started?) 😉 > [@Misnomer](#): > > You seem like a witty, intelligent woman – any guy would be lucky to have you as a work-wife. Just give yourself plenty of time to heal, so that you don’t wind up with a rebound work-husband. In point of fact, I _am_ witty and intelligent, and not at all self-involved, thank you for noticing. (I’m sorry, “hubris”? I’m not familiar with that word.) I spent some time today interviewing candidates for the position of work-husband, and have come to the conclusion that I am going to be a widow for a while. There’s really no one suitable (unless I try to break up another work-marriage or pick up one of the newbies, and, really, I’m neither a homewrecker nor a cradle-snatcher). This is kind of bad; I’m actually a bit nutty, and so far I’ve been able to apportion my nuttiness amongst my work-husband and my non-work-friends. It now appears that my non-work-friends are going to have to carry a heavier load. Oh, dear. And I had so hoped they would all think I was normal. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-is-leaving-me/367812/27 "2006-08-10T04:41:12Z")
[QUOTE=Campion] **Campion** is the _rich_, _hot_, and _ **currently single** _ lawyer. (How _do_ these rumors get started?) 😉 [/QUOTE] How You doin? 😃 I’m tellin ya, you’ll be happier if you come over to the side of truth and justice. All that defense work is wearing ya down. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-is-leaving-me/367812.md?page=1)