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We have all heard stories about some people getting tangled in work-wife or work-husbandrelationships.
Yet, not everyone gets into them voluntarily.
Todays story is the perfect example of this.
A man had a coworker who his wife dubbed wannabe work-wife.
This woman constantly pestered the mans pregnant wife.
The harassment reached a pinnacle when the woman insisted that the wife should have aborted her baby.
Typically, awork spouseis a coworker a person engages with the most at work.
The concept itself isntcheatingper se, as long as the spouses dont engage in romantic or physical relationships.
In the case of todays story, interestingly, the husbands coworker is not officially dubbed his work-wife.
Yet, she still manages to cause harm in their relationship.
Well, maybe more to theirmentalwell-being instead of the relationship itself, but harm is still harm.
And so, many times, this coworker used to complain about how much she was working.
She also used to imply that her making more money than her hubby wasemasculatingto him.
Nevertheless, he never agreed with her complaints.
The OP has beenpregnantfor 8 and a half months, so she is no longer working.
Still, the wannabe work-wife doesnt like this either.
And since shes a bigger lady herself, this would have made her feel better.
But it didnt happen.
So she picked on the pregnant womans age.
Now, getting pregnant after turning 35 is categorized as advanced maternal age (AMA).
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However, the work-wife didnt think so.
She rushed to the couple and started blabbing about fetal alcohol syndrome.
Basically, its aconditionthat a child can have if they were exposed to alcohol while in the womb.
It can cause them to have lifelong behavior, cognitive, physical, and learning disabilities.
As we know, the OP wasnt drinking heavily she just sipped diluted alcohol.
When this fact was told to the woman by her workcrush, she lost her cool.
These harsh words stunned everyone.
The OP told her off, and when she left, the couple thought it was the end.
The work-wife started harassing them leaving many emails, calls, and voicemails.
So, the man went to HR and reported her.
Shortly after, she resigned.
As the author later clarified, she wasaskedto leave the job, which is basically being fired.
But the harassment didnt stop.
So, she came to Reddit to ask if she was wrong for saying the things she did.
The people there reassured her that she wasnt a jerk.
In fact, some of them were surprised how she could even think she was wrong here.
This woman was always pestering her with unaskedopinionsand said very nasty stuff to her.
And then, even after all this, she still worried about her mental health.
Well, that doesnt sound like the actions of a jerk, does it?
Lets just hope that the ex-coworker will get the help she needs.
After all, her actions not only hurt people around her but herself, too.
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