What’s So Shocking About a Man Who Loves His Wife?
June 26, 2025
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as posted by the channel“My love for my wife does not exist solely online. I often express it directly to her, or talk about her in glowing terms to friends and co-workers,” writes Jeremy Gordon.
“So the first time that someone called me a ‘wife guy,’ I wasn’t sure how to react.”
If you are encountering the phrase “wife guy” for the first time and think it surely must mean “a guy who loves his wife,” you would be wrong. The term, a by-product of several converging online trends, has come to describe someone whose spousal affection is so ostentatious that it becomes inherently untrustworthy—a man so consistently and loudly psyched about being married that sirens are set off in the minds of family members and strangers alike.
But what’s so wrong about a man openly loving his wife? At the link, read more of Gordon’s reconsideration of the term.
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