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My husband got the top position in the company we both work at and he either completely changed or he has always been like this and I was blind
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Meanwhile, the executive husband is busy proving that personal problems are not his problem. Long time colleague with a special needs child loses the understanding schedule. Another worker gets blocked from leaving early to care for a father with cancer because targets come first. Then everyone clocks out and goes home, where the plant villain and the plant ghost share a bed and, occasionally, a bedtime recap of the same drama from opposite angles.
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On paper it looks like a power couple. In real life it is just the clearest possible example that work-life balance falls apart when work moves into the marriage and refuses to pay rent.
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Wife returns from maternity leave after husband is promoted to feared plant boss, tanking her social life as his strict policies at work start spilling into their marriage: ‘Even people I know stopped inviting me for lunch’
Work-life balance usually means answering one email on the couch. In this case, it means being married to the guy who makes the whole plant stop laughing on sight. Same building, same company, one shared home, two completely different universes. At work, he is the top exec with a personal assistant, a reputation for being strict, and a face that makes conversation wilt in the hallway. At home, he is the man who somehow has time to jog and swim but not to listen to how lonely things feel three floors down.
Marriage plus shared workplace already sounds like a bad HR training video. Here it plays like satire. The wife comes back from maternity leave to an entry-level job where half the staff does not know her and the other half now treats her like a walking complaint box with eyes. Lunch invites disappear. Book club invites dry up. Nobody wants to relax around the person whose husband just yanked flexible hours from the coworker with a sick parent.
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