Work Wife

The Naked Marriage with Dave & Ashley Willis

XO Marriage

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A term often used at work, is "work wife" or "work spouse," is this a harmless saying or is there potential danger in thinking this way? On today's episode we tackle what is appropriate conduct in the workplace to protect yourself and your spouse. Today's Question (21:00): My in laws have a sad marriage from the outside looking in. They argue every time we are together, they sleep in separate rooms, they have complete separate bank accounts, they bad mouth one another when they are not together, and my father in law always complains and unloads on us kids about his wife and how that us kids are the only thing that keep him going. They need help but who am I as a daughter in law to tell them that? Any advice on how to approach this conversation with them? ------- Buy our new book, The Counterfeit Climax HERE Sign up as a Premium Member nakedmarriage.supercast.com Membership Includes: Ad-Free episodes Early access to new episodes Member-only episodes And a place you can ask us anything For more great marriage content, visit xomarriage.com Ready to get healthier and strengthen your relationship with your spouse? Sign up for XO Fitness: XOnow.com/fitness and get a 7 day free trial! Check out the newest podcast to the XO Podcast Network with our friends Ed & Lisa Young, The Creative Marriage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by National Rail.
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0:26.2	All right, well, I'm excited about today's topic because it is a term many would consider
0:34.0	a term of endearment, but it's a term that might actually harm your marriage.
0:39.2	And that is, and there's actually two terms, work wife or work husband.
0:43.7	What do we do with this?
0:44.8	Is it okay to use this?
0:47.0	Is this something good?
0:48.0	Is this something bad?
0:49.6	We're going to talk about all the things.
0:51.7	And yeah, but we've heard a lot of people in our own lives use this reference.
0:56.2	It could even be in church world.
0:57.9	It can be like we've heard pastors refer to their assistant as a work wife.
1:03.4	Now I will say too in the work that we do, we've also seen that not end well.
1:08.4	So yeah, we have indeed seen that end well.
1:13.5	So this is a nuanced issue.
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