My husband calls work colleagues “mate” and referred to me as “the Mrs”

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I cannot take this working from home any more.

Anyone else the same?

Terms of endearment come in all shapes and sizes. @Moo7878. Raging??? Thats dramatic. Bet your hubby calls you er indoors 🤣🤣🤣

Moaning Mertal I get called

Hide the Micky Flanagan DVDs.

‘The Mrs’ is yukky and misogynistic.

If DP said that to me he’d be out the door.

I expect respect from a partner, not to be treated like an object.

’The Mrs’ is yukky and misogynistic.

Verily1 😂😂😂

Some people will take offence at anything. I pity your boyfriend.

I love being a Mrs

My husband refers to me as "my wife" or by my first name, depending on who he's speaking with.

I am with you Op. I hate it when people say the Mrs or my Mrs for that matter. I find it very laddish and sexist. What is wrong with ‘my wife’. Some of the other names on here are hilarious though.

I get The missus. The wife and Gestapo leader.
He gets called My old man. The husband and wanker.
🤷

What’s the problem that’s what my husband refers me as at his work. I call him the hubby or him indoors. Even in his phone I am listed as The wife and not my name.

Our manager calls us mate
My husband calls me "his good lady". The Mrs would be much better!

Very derogatory.

This reminded me of the whole “I’ve discovered I’m married to “Let’s Circle Back Guy” Twitter discussion - very funny
bestlifeonline.com/spouse-work-personas-twitter/

Annoyingly, all I have discovered about my husband is that he is enormously diligent and does actually work constantly from dawn till dusk, whereas he’s walked in on me “working” from the comfort of are lining position on my bed more than once in the last few weeks

Sounds Australian

Not read all the replies but I assume this is a joke?

All my male colleagues call everyone at work mate and refer to their girlfriend/wife/fiancé as ‘the mrs’

I am Australian, I call everyone mate. Sometimes I even use love.

You sound like my H. He's been pissed off since lockdown whenever he's caught a bit of my Zoom meetings.

'Why did that guy call you 'nickname'?'
'There was far too much swearing on that call - it's so unprofessional.'
'Your team are way too blokey'
'You should get a new job. You behave like your colleagues and that's not who you are you've stopped taking my shit'

It's fucking tiresome tbh. Every workplace has its own culture and we don't all act exactly the same at home as we do in work. Add to that we're living in a really odd time so even at work we're cutting each other a bit of slack on the 'professionalism'. Hard to maintain that corporate sheen when any given call is likely to be interrupted by a child / pet / shopping delivery / random housemate.

I think calling people "mate" sounds juvenile and chavvy in all honesty. I get why it irks you OP. I also would not stand being labelled "The Mrs". Unoriginal and not an affectionate nickname.

"the wife of [man's name]" is acceptable yet "the wife" is objectifying!?

Get a grip

My DH assigned Chewbacca’s Wookie noise as my ringtone. I find this offensive! 😂

My DH calls me "The Mrs"
I don't mind.
If he didn't, he'd call me Carol.
My name isn't Carol.

That was his first wife.

'She who must be obeyed' - but its taken years of training :)

Lots of my colleagues refer to their other half as that. I wouldn't feel too insulted. It's nice he mentions you to them.

I have no idea how DH refers to me at work. He’s been working away in his upstairs office and I never overhear any of his meetings. He’s not very loud even if I’m in a nearby room. (Also, his meetings are extremely boring so I don’t want to listen to that!).

If I’m talking to colleagues in my team, I’d just use his first name. They all do the same about their husbands/wives/partners.

I don’t think DH’s team does. Mostly because he doesn’t know what his colleagues’ wives are called. So I assume that either they don’t talk about them much (very possible) or they just go with ‘my wife’ etc.

My DH assigned Chewbacca’s Wookie noise as my ringtone

Mine’s Puff the Magic Dragon 🤣

We've been married 22 years and he's always called me "the wife".
But I also refer to him as "the husband".
I think it's hilarious.