Sensitive wife

Wife is over sensitive - A wife is suspecting her husband having affair with someone else in the company, and making them keep arguing everyday.
@yspmyl (3435)
Malaysia
July 11, 2011 4:07am CST
I have a colleague told me that recently he has been argue quite frequently with her wife, it is because his wife suspected him having an affair with one of our female colleague. According to him, his wife saw the woman being too close to him during our company's trip and make her suspecting that he is having an affair with the woman. But my others colleagues and me which are all in the same company, we know that they having nothing. But his wife just doesn't believe him no matter how hard he tried to explain to her. For me, the wife is over sensitive and thinking too much. And this will only make the situation worst and make the family in chaos situation. We all are trying to think of a way to help him to solve this problem. Anyone of you have faced such a relationship problem before? Is your wife a sensitive woman or you are a sensitive wife. How do you solve this kind of problem if it happens to you? Your view on this issue please.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
11 Jul 11
The wife has every right to feel that way. Imagine seeing your husband so close with a particular female office mate? Who wouldn't be , when all along they are always with each other at the office, it could be developed into something deeper. The best thing is to have the wife talk with the girl. Then, the wife could also talk with the other employees for their testimony that there's nothing special between her husband and the girl. That way, the wife could be at least appeased and pacified. Meantime, have your friend avoid the girl from now on. Better to prevent anything.
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@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
14 Jul 11
Hi! The wife have the right to feel like that but what if the husband is innocent, then must he bear the pain of being accused? I do think that in such a case, women are always too sensitive and over react. At least before start any fight, the wife should investigate and find out the truth and not just simply throw a bomb to the husband. You are quite right that talking to the girl will really work but would it make the two colleagues relationship become awkward? Sometime a trust still need to be there between the husband and wife.
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
12 Jul 11
We have what we call, a woman's instinct. And mind you, most of it is true. It's better to prevent a thing to happen, than just let it happen.
• Philippines
11 Jul 11
Yea right SIMPLYD, we do have the same perception1 :) The wife has the right to feel that way, very right! :)
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• Philippines
11 Jul 11
I am a wife myself. I must say that jealousy is a common part for each relationship. I am not a jealous type of person but when I see that my husband is beyond his limits of being a friend to some of his girlfriend, I make sure that i bring the issue with him straight away. I want it to be cleared with him. Trust is an essential part of a relationship as well. Is your colleague really that close to your female colleague. He should talk to his wife about this matter before it gets worse.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Jul 11
as a woman who had jealous thoughts too when a woman friend made it obvious she wanted my hubby instead of her own,i told this woman to quit hanging on him, kissing him as otherwise I would personally first scratch her eyes out then tell her husband she is making an a.s.s. of herself with the wrong man.If wife actually saw the lady in question pushing herself up against him then your friend needs to clue himself in that the woman wants an affair, and remove himself from her proximity.The man does not have to accept over familiarity with a female coworker at all and if he does and wife sees it well what do you expect?
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
15 Jul 11
Hi! Genesisgroldan, He is close to everyone since he is a kind person who like to help other. He is also kind of people that do not know how to say no. That is why everyone like to ask him for help. The wife have meet his female colleague before just that she doesn't confronted her about their relationship. Hi Hatley, She doesn't kiss him or hug him like what you have encounter on your husband. The wife just saw the lady keep hanging around her husband. I think if the hugging and kissing happen, she would explode instantly.
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
11 Jul 11
Hello yspmyl, It is natural the couples are possessive on each other and I think it is good for a strong relationship. But this possessiveness creates problem once it cross the permissible limit. I think your friend’s wife also possessive on her hubby, it is true that once she started to think in a bad way about her hubby then all is bad for her and her thoughts will be crazy. I think she should change her attitude and accept the reality as he has to coordinate with his opposite gender colleagues too. It is difficult to handle for your friend alone because well all know that the base of a married life is ‘trust’. Once we lose the trust then it is very difficult to regain. Here the wife doubts on her husband and I think somebody who close to her can make her understand the reality. Please ask your friend to talk to her wife and narrate the things happening in office including this colleague. I think hiding creates more complications. I would like add, you can ask your friend, how his wife get this thoughts in her mind.
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@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
14 Jul 11
Hi Sreekala, Yeah, I agree that it is a natural of the couple to be possessive on each other but over possessive probably will only bring harm to the married. I think his wife is too emotional and thus created fight between the two of them. When this kind of situation, trust will be really important and his wife should not keep asking him about the lady. Of course there will be limit for a person to stand if being pressed on something he does not do. For all of us in the company, he is a nice guy and like to help other, when anyone need help and look for him, he will be willingly to guide them. I think because of his kind attitude, the wife get worried and jealous when someone close to him. I the wife will calm down and have a good talk with her husband and hopefully the problem will be solve.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
11 Jul 11
I think i should get to know the wife first and the history of the husband as well. My mother was a very jealous woman and would nag my dad for being like a flower surrounded by bees(women). Yeah my dad was like a flower who attracts women wherever he was because of his great sense of humor. Though my dad wasn't doing anything my mom was still so jealous. When i talked to my grandparents about this, i learned that my mom witnessed my grandpa having mistresses though he never abandoned his family. In fact my grandpa was very handsome and women just get attracted to him. Since he worked far away he gets tempted and do played with fire but as soon as he got burned he would go home and confessed to my grandmother. Thus my mother knew about this and swore to herself that he would never allow her husband to be tempted and play with fire. I was never a jealous and wife and is never gonna be a jealous wife like my mom. I guess because my history wasn't like that of my mom and my husband is so in love with me, he's the one getting jealous!
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@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
11 Jul 11
Hi! I think when a man is handsome, the wife will feel insecure because of that. They will worried that their husband will be run away with others women. But at the same time, they want to have a handsome husband, that is irony of it. I think when the wife actually seen the husband being too close with other women, she will definitely get jealous and started to suspecting her husband. And there started the fight, and most of the time, this kind of fight will cause a more serious problem in the family. So, I think a wife who are too sensitive should think of a way to calm themselves down before argue with the husband in order to make the situation worst.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
12 Jul 11
I'm just wondering why only the wife should make an effort? Marriage makes the husband and the wife as one person. I think both of them should make compromises and it's the husband's responsibility too to make his wife calm down. Though my grandfather played with fire, I admired the way he handled things with my grandmother. My grandmother never felt insecure because my grandfather made her feel that even though women were after him and he sometimes get tempted he always apologized and ran away from that woman to be with the person he truly loves. So I think the husband should be like that, so that there won't be any insecurities. Women have all the right to be sensitive.
@nurseclare (2209)
• Philippines
11 Jul 11
I am a sensitive girl and I'll never deny that, i easily get jealous. Because I'm afraid to lose him. If I we're the wife and I saw that the girl was to close to my husband then I will rethink. How about you if you saw your hubby being caress by other women would you be happy?C'mon! That's a normal feeling of a wife. And i totally understand that. Sounds good when you said that there's nothing deep with them, I just hope too. Well, hoping that the girl is wise enough to think that having an affair with a married man is disgusting..
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@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
14 Jul 11
Hi! We all know very clearly that he is clean, and they have nothing with each other. That is why we pity him being an innocent man but yet get accused having affair with his colleague. Most of the woman will lose their rational thinking when come to this kind of problem, the tend to control by their emotion rather than logical thinking. We just hope he can cope with it.
@angie20 (191)
• Philippines
11 Jul 11
I had an experienced like that in our family. My father had been suspected having an affair with another woman who also happened to be my father colleague. My mother was not that suspicious type but when she, herself saw the kind of intimate closeness the woman shown to my father - well, she bursts. It almost ruined our family. The solution? We told him (my father) to stay away from the woman. The woman understand that because she is also a married one. I don't think that a woman will not act that easily if the man himself is worthy of trust. Female race should be aware that they should limit the way they interact with the married men. I'd like to lay some exceptions to those female friends of the married man that has been known by his wife. Married men should also set borders to those upcoming female friends - that's the consequence of being married. It's either lose a wife or a female friend - a married man still has his freedom of choice.
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@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
15 Jul 11
Hi! That is quite an unfair statement. Mean if a man or woman is married, they have no right to have opposite gender as their friends. I think people should change their mind and should be more open minded because if you need to work away from home, I mean you if you are no working at home, you have no way to avoid making friends with the opposite gender. In order for you to socialize you need friends, and for you to survive in a company, you have to get around and close to everyone in the company regardless of the gender. But with a condition that you must set a border or a limit where you should not be too close to them if you are married to avoid unnecessary feeling. That is how I think.
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
23 Jul 11
Personally this is a touchy situation, and sounds like the wife has a personal Trust issue and maybe this is part of the problem. Maybe she just needs to realize that just because her husband works around this woman and probably other women as well there is nothing going on there, and he Loves her. Maybe he just needs to find some ways to Win her trust and show her just how much she means to him and be able to keep showing it until his wife comes around in time.
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
26 Jul 11
Hi! I think his wife doesn't feel secure because of the woman keep get near and close to her husband. And she also afraid that the woman might take her husband away. Most of the woman will let their imagination go wild easily especially when she cannot see and keep an eye on her husband when he is at work. So, like what you said, she really need to gain back the trust she has for him and I think he need to do something to make her feel secure.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Jul 11
yspmyl oh I used to be sensitive too until we sat down and talked it out as I really did trust him, but jealousy was rearing its ugly head and he assured me he would never cheat on me and asked me to trust him and also asked if he could trust me. I said of course you are the only man i love and will ever love.so those two must talk it out and promise each other complete trust , faith and respect for each other. My view is if your friend has always been most faithful and not even flirted she must learn to trust him as he probably does trust her.Communication,trust and respect for each other and for themselves should help to get that in the correct prospective for sure.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Jul 11
just an add on, You might suggest that the woman in question in your work force make an effort not to get close and chummy looking with your friend as that will make any one of us nervous a nd worried. really if your friend has no romantic feeling towards his female coworker tell him to really do not get u p close and personal with this woman as its just not necessary and almost any female with brains wou ld wonder if she is rubbing against him and being in close contact why? Friends do not usually do that b ut lovers will do that so suggest to the female not to make it look like there is anything romantic going on. If hes as much in love with his wife as you all assume, surely he can not make her jealous by staying away from his female colleague.
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
15 Jul 11
Hi Hatley, I do agree that communication for the couple will definitely work them out of the fight. If the husband really love her, and he have done nothing wrong, the situation will be clear after sometime. Just that the wife need to take time to find it out and once she regain the trust on him, their problem will probably solved. After a few day of cold war between two of them, they have now talking to each other on the issue and the wife at the moment said will trust him for the moment unless she caught him with her another time. I think he really need to keep a distance with the female colleague even though they having nothing. We have actually ask her why she keep getting around him and she said she just find him helpful and just ask him for help and nothing more than that, and she knew that he is married and she doesn't want to get involved in their relationship.
• United States
11 Jul 11
First of all, don't attempt to help the man. Let the man take care of HIS own situation by himself. If he is "innocent" then he has nothing to worry about. If the wife already has TRUST issues with the husband. It's more than likely she wont trust you either. So don't even bother.Trust me. Been there, done that. My opinion is, If he really wants his marriage he will do anything and go above and beyond to make his wife be at ease with the situation. If not then it's on his hands. His best bet is not to work with his colleague anymore. If not, he should have his colleague and his wife meet up and get to know one another, Maybe that could build a little trust. I'm just surprise the wife didn't try to confront the colleague. If I wanted confirmation, I would go straight to the source and ask myself. && if there stories match up. Then it would be all good. But if I were to find out a different story later, then they would both get the wrath of a pissed off wife. Okay. Lol. that was so not edifying. But I got worked up a lil. LOL! I remember when I was in the exact situation about a year and a half ago. Whew. Thank God thats over with. haha! Anyways, have a blessed day! :)
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@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
14 Jul 11
We all just feel pity for him on his situation and thinking a way to help him to go through it. But the final decision or action is still by his own. I also believe if they really have nothing, there are nothing much to worry and when time goes by, everything will be clear. And by going through this kind of situation, their relationship and love will grow stronger and deeper.
@ebuscat (5935)
• Philippines
11 Jul 11
For me just not to think that all move to is jealous be calm and just laugh that because of the love in you she act that way and don't mind of it.
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@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
14 Jul 11
Hi! That will do if the imaginative relationship does not exist. Jealousy will definitely emerge if such a thing happen but just depend on how a woman can handle and how much trust she put on her husband.
@aeiou78 (3445)
• Malaysia
15 Jul 11
Although both of them are not having any affair, they have to behave themselves for not wrongly impressing other people. For me, it was very hard to judge, unless I were on the spot. In fact, your colleague shall be proud of himself because his the other half is still concerning him so much. Many things around you may start to happen without your realization in the early stage. We should be good in observation and be careful a bit to avoid the unnecessary trouble if we really don't want it to be happened.
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
18 Jul 11
Yeah, that is what a married people should do in order to avoid unnecessary trouble in their relationship. For him may be the female colleague being close to him is normal and he doesn't feel anything for her. But in someone eyes, especially his wife, a little bit of crossing border action will make her jealous and suspect. So, I think like what you said, he should keep a distance with the female colleague and he should also learn how to say no to people who asking help from him. He is a nice person and like to help other and I believe that is why people like to get around him.
@devijay78 (1573)
• India
13 Jul 11
Hi yspmyl. The wife has every right to suspect him. There is no smoke without fire. Even if there was nothing between him and his colleague, why would a married man be close with another woman who is not his wife? There are limits which married or committed people should never cross and maybe he crossed it when his wife was there. Even small touching and simply being with that person for a longer period of time will lead to a lot of other unwanted thoughts. So it is his duty to always be on guard. What if he had seen his wife act that way with another guy? Would he take it lightly? He has choices, you know? He has to stay away from that woman and try to convince his wife if he is so distressed. Or at least talk it out with both of them together so that her suspicions are put to rest and then stay away from the other woman. Moreover, you might just be his colleague, but she is his wife and she might have strong reasons to believe what she believes.
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
18 Jul 11
Hi Devijay78, Sorry for delay in replying to you. You are right that no smoke without a fire. The wife saw the girl being too close to him during the day and that brought up her jealousy. and she wanted to find out the truth so there started the arguments. But from the eyes of us as a colleagues of him, we don't really see anything wrong with the two of them. In the company, they are just like any other colleague and really nothing at all, just that he is a man who like to help the others, so, I think that is the cause that get him into such a trouble. He now become more quite and most of the time only talk to male colleagues. So, I think he is now trying to save the relationship.