• Rooster326@programming.dev
      71·
      6 days ago

      If she is meeting him out of work, going to dinner, “cackling” whatever that means.

      There’s something in it for her too. Ain’t nobody that naive

  • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
    28·
    5 days ago

    Take a work wife (which is already a psychotic term), remove the “work” part, and act like you invented this new type of relationship…

    What are you even talking about!?

  • notsosure@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    5 days ago

    The expression “Bestie” is pretty weird in Germany, as it is pronounced besty-uh and literally translates to “wild animal” or “monster”. “Larissa was a real “Bestie” in bed last night; I’m completely bruised and scratched all over. Glad I have my work wife!”

  • Avicenna@programming.dev
    20·
    6 days ago

    I mean you can just call her a “very good friend”? Or “one of my best friends”. I am sure this will have a positive impact on your real wive’s psychology too if you are married.

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
    121·
    6 days ago

    most of my colleagues are women, I get along with them great. We occasionally socialize a couple of times a year outside work. I would be mortified for anyone to think they were anything more than purely colleagues.

    like I wouldn’t really be happy to think of them as friends - not that they’re not lovely people, just that I have my friends who are friends, and these are nice people I work with.

  • Okokimup@lemmy.world
    216·
    7 days ago

    Intersting the way people assume “wife” means sex, and not the more likely analogy that she does all the shitty work to aid his career.

    • architect@thelemmy.club
      174·
      7 days ago

      Wife implies sex. The whole thing is usually “we would be fucking if we weren’t married to other people”. They can deny it all they want, but it’s mostly true.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
      613·
      7 days ago

      Most pairs look alike. Genetic chemistry. They also are the ones that usually last. Same with pets btw.

      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
        8·
        7 days ago

        Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

        Nah, that’s your pet theory on top of a real phenomenon. Yes, there are papers that suggest that people are more initially attracted to people who share facial characteristics with them. No, there is no study that links that phenomenon to a genetic predisposition to select others with our traits.

        I would speculate that someone who looks like they belong in your family is probably more likely to trigger feelings of familiarity, and familiarity with a stranger does tend to allow you to let your guard down faster, creating a lower barrier for those with similar traits to then begin dating. No need for a genetics explanation at all!

        • Windex007@lemmy.world
          3·
          7 days ago

          I mean… if you’re saying there are studies that say people are initially attracted to people who look like themselves, and there as well are studies that show that people who look the same but are otherwise unrelated ARE more genetically similar than people who don’t (the doppelganger study) then there seems to be a transitive association there, no?

          If you really want to press on thier argument, I feel like the idea that the longevity of relationships between couples is based on how much they look alike when they met is very suspect.

          I add “when they met”, because there is also a phenomenon where people look more like thier partners the longer they’ve been together, and it’s in large part that expression mirroring over decades actually subtly synchronizes thier facial musculatures and wrinkle patterns. So, you gotta be careful with the correlation specifically with long term partners. In the LONG TERM they might look alike because they’ve been together for a long time, rather than what buddy was suggesting which was they were together a long time because they look alike.

  • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    Semantics aside, I wonder how she would describe the same relationship and what prompted him to post this in the first place.