Monday Mini Classic: The Work Spouse
Stuff Mom Never Told You
iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What exactly does 'work spouse' entail, and should we retire the term altogether? In this classic, we discuss examples, history and problems.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:09.2 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 0:10.6 | And Samantha. |
| 0:11.5 | I welcome to Stuff and Never Told You, production by your heart radio. |
| 0:33.4 | And today we have another sort of Valentine's Day adjacent episode for you, which is the workspouse. |
| 0:42.2 | Yeah. Yeah. Again, our Valentine's Day episodes are all over the place. |
| 0:56.1 | It's a loose interpretation. Yes. But it did make me, it made me remember how you and I used to spend all of our Valentine's Day together, not necessarily purposefully, |
| 0:59.6 | but it just kind of happened to that way. |
| 1:01.5 | It's true. |
| 1:03.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:14.6 | And it is interesting when you work with someone on kind of like a creative team like this, where we do, there is a level of like I need to know what's going on in your life and I need to understand and then we try to help each other. |
| 1:21.0 | We invest a lot in each other. |
| 1:22.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.7 | I mean, we also are good friends. |
| 1:32.5 | Yes. But on top of that, our work does require sort of a level of hey what's going on right yeah uh so please enjoy this classic episode. |
| 1:48.7 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 1:49.4 | And Samantha. |
| 1:51.8 | And welcome to Steffo Never Told You, a production of IHeartRadio. And Annie, I have a question for you. |
| 2:03.0 | We haven't done this in a while, but have you ever had a work spouse? |
| 2:08.9 | Or would you ever say that you actually had a work spouse at any point in time that you called them this? |
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