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My DH is overly concerned about his colleague

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Yiu124 · 13/09/2024 22:13

My DH works in a stressful job. He often comes home offloading. He has a few peers at work he’s friendly enough, but lately, he’s become overly invested in his female peer work stresses. They are in stressful situations- I get it, and they offload. But they are chatting a lot. She checks some of his essential emails. I often overhear him telling her to look after herself, that he’s concerned about her, not to work late, and that she cheers him up. Is this normal? Corporate environment for context

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MasterBeth · 07/12/2025 22:35

TLMTTCSJTT1 · 15/09/2024 20:34

Really depends on the person. I have a stressful job and speak like this to my male colleagues because they're like family. Never ever been anything in it and I really do see them in a brother category and same for them with me. For context we are all in our 30s and objectively attractive, nice people so nothing off-putting as such we just don't go there. Hope this helps as a perspective x

Again, you cannot know what they are thinking about you

MasterBeth · 07/12/2025 22:38

Sceptical123 · 15/09/2024 10:06

That’s the point OP. He wouldn’t be saying this to someone who wasn’t female and attractive/younger would he?

Yes, he might be. It's called friendship. Men can be friends. It can be balding 50-something Brian from Accounts. It's just that you wouldn't be concerned about that because it doesn't threaten your relationship.

ResultsMayVary · 07/12/2025 22:47

MasterBeth · 07/12/2025 22:34

You can be 100% certain there is no romance /sexual interest from you to him.

You have no idea whether it's true the other way.

Oh I'm 100% sure! He has a very beautiful.girlfrirnd 20 years younger than me and he's very open about how he feels about her.
He's a guy who is very sensitive and generally doesn't enjoy the company of men.

MasterBeth · 07/12/2025 22:49

ResultsMayVary · 07/12/2025 22:47

Oh I'm 100% sure! He has a very beautiful.girlfrirnd 20 years younger than me and he's very open about how he feels about her.
He's a guy who is very sensitive and generally doesn't enjoy the company of men.

All of the above can be true and still... You can't know what he feels for you.

ResultsMayVary · 07/12/2025 22:49

MasterBeth · 07/12/2025 22:35

Again, you cannot know what they are thinking about you

You seem very focused on this - perhaps you can't have platonic friendships but others can. And it can be very clear cut.

MasterBeth · 07/12/2025 23:06

ResultsMayVary · 07/12/2025 22:49

You seem very focused on this - perhaps you can't have platonic friendships but others can. And it can be very clear cut.

I just know of several women who would have sworn blind they were having a platonic friendship / brother/sister relationship/ close colleagues only relationship over years or even decades, who then learned that their friend had had the hots for them over all that time.

I'm not saying it always happens. I'm not even saying it's a terrible thing (one confessed after the marriage broke up and they are now together). But I am saying you cannot know.

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