March 18, 2008
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Here's a situation you can think about...
A man takes his wife to a conference trip for his work. The wife only knows some of her husband's co-workers. It has to be mentioned that because this trip is work related, the wife isn't always going to be with him. The husband sets up a place for the wife to meet him afterwards, and in this case it's a local bar / restaurant. The wife shows up at the place and sees her husband having a drink at the bar. However, she also sees her husband happily talking to this pretty woman. She then sees him hug this woman before they part ways. When the wife asks her husband who she was, he says nonchalantly that it's one of his co-workers. The wife is annoyed and upset about what she saw, however the husband seems oblivious about that fact. Later on when finally confronted, the husband is confused at why his wife is acting all angry at him about the pretty woman. "She's just a co-worker, there's nothing going on." The wife doesn't think it's appropriate for her husband to be so friendly to that pretty co-worker of his anyways. She also asks him why he never mentioned this particular pretty co-worker of his to her in the first place. He says that she is being unreasonable, and she is saying that he acted out of line.
Now is one of them completely in the right and the other in the wrong, or is it not that simple and they both have some blame to the argument?
Comments (2)
i think, that by not mentioning the coworker, it made it worse. now she'll think that he's hiding something even if he isn't.
I think his biggest offense is that he was oblivious to why his wife was upset about the situation. He could have diffused the situation right there and then, if he knew it was a problem to her. True that it would have helped if he previously mentioned that co-worker at least. This is the reason why I tell my wife most everything about the women I interact with at work, to avoid situations such as this story.
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