At work the other day, I noticed that a guy in the cubicle across from me was talking to other workers about his wife. I thought it was kind of interesting because people don’t talk about their families very much in the office. The thing that caught my attention the most was that he wasn’t making very nice comments about his wife. I was kind of uncomfortable with it, but I really didn’t care. Really, I was wondering how others would respond to him who are located closer to him in the office. Other than this individual talking, two other people, at the most, were involved in this conversation. There were not very many questions asked or comments made and the conversation lasted for probably two minutes at the most and then it either went quiet or someone changed the subject.
I thought it was interesting that this guy would talk about this, at least in this kind of setting. Sometimes it appears that the husband doesn’t care what the wife does, but in this case it was obvious that he did. It was also interesting to see the response he received from other co-workers and that the conversation didn’t last very long.
In this type of setting, I would expect a woman more than a man to make such comments. I don’t think the woman would be nearly as derogatory, but it seems like more of something that a woman would talk about.
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I agree if I overheard that conversation at work I would be a little uncomfortable. First of all conversations of that nature need to stay out of the office and if you need to vent call up a close friend or family member and vent on them, because they know you and will be able to give you sound advice. Also, I think if you are having troubles like that in your marriage I think you need to go talk to you wife about them and get them out in the open so that you can work through them and try and save your marriage instead of talking smack about her behind her back to people you hardly know at the office
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