Work event and DH

[Pumpkinspicedshitbags]

DH and I work for the same company, same department, different job roles. WFH.

Tomorrow we have a work event - like the office Christmas party. For various (mainly childcare related reasons) it'll be the first event we will both have been at, and I'm unsure how to act!

Do I just treat him as a colleague I'm friends with? Like my boss (he is sort of)? Like I don't know him very well? Avoid him where possible?

Everyone knows we're married, they knew before I got the job. We're frequently in meetings together and generally have professional but jovial rapport. But we've not been in the same physical space together, socially, at work.

Wwyd?

Obvious I'm not going to mount him on a desk, but clearly there's in betweens!

🤣🤣treat him like your boss you fancy. Arrive separately and share a taxi home…

Or behave like man and wife at a work event!?

I like the boss I fancy idea!

I don't actually know how a husband and wife at a work event would act, which is why I'm asking.

Should probably have added that I'm a very high functioning autistic person which is probably why I'm stressing about it! I don't enjoy social events and especially not work social events at the best of times!

Address him as Mr Pumpkinspicedshitbags, and wear long gloves. The occasional giggly glance is allowed, but nothing unseemly.

You could stay away from him at the work event and take the opportunity to talk to some other people.

Which is probably the point of the work event if everyone WFH.

Ahhhhh this is cute. I'd enjoy being out together but have no physical touch beyond when you're leaving together.

Shag him in the toilets

I really wish the laughing reaction was still available as some of these are top tier. It's making me feel less stressed that's for sure.

Im guessing that at a non-work party you wouldn't be snogging or shagging in a corner, so just be the same there!

You could work up a whole scenario, OP:

"You are my boss, I am a lowly worker, the company forbids inter-colleague relationships. We have had Teams banter but now we are finally in a room together, with warm white wine and a buffet. I am hotly aware of your presence at the shindig, always somehow knowing where you are in the room. Our eyes meet across the canapes, you pass me a mini sausage roll and when our hands touch it's electric."

When you first see him gasp and swoon. If any other woman talk to him grabs them by the hair and shout "Back off, he's mine"

Have a great evening.

This is the correct option followed by photocopying your arse.

Throw a glass in a female colleagues face if he talks to one and call her a slag.

No, but he would put his hand on my waist, kiss me, we'd spend most of the evening together etc.

Act like his granny is sitting next to him. So be friendly and warm but you aren't going to be flirty etc like you might when out with a group of friends.

I used to work with my high functioning autistic wife, she was sort of my boss so this is tried and tested advice.