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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a work husband, and when I got pregnant he invited me and my husband to a dinner with him and his wife. She gave me a ton of advice about being a new mom, and they gave us hand me downs, and were great. I became friends with her too, and one day she told me that sometimes she gets jealous because I get to spend more waking hours with her husband than she does, we talk about (technical) things she doesn't know about, and as a stay at home mom sometimes she felt "less than."  I am glad she told me.

All four of us are still good friends. [/quote]
This is OP and wow, yes! I work, but I definitely feel that have  “relationships” and I’m a little jealous of that. My husband sometimes works 10 hour days around deadlines, and yes, he definitely spends more time a week in this “relationship” than he does with me, and then he comes home and brags about them. It sounds so irrational! How do I stop feeling this way without sounding like a desperate wife? I mean, I spend more time with my coworkers, too, but this feels different. I’m definitely not thinking of them when I’m not at work. [/quote]

Okay, this makes a lot of sense, and I've been there, down to the part about mentioning that she was so good at something i'm not. What helped was just spending more time with my husband and re-focusing on my own life and happiness. This actually required my husband to do more with the kids, so he did wind up chatting less with the women I was jealous of for two seconds. But now that I feel better about my life and our relationship I wouldn't be as bothered. [/quote]

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