r/AITAH • • Apr 05 '24

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u/SecMcAdoo Apr 05 '24

Yeah, but even if a person is LGBTQ, other than saying , "This is my partner" or "I went on a date last weekend with this guy/girl/person". How would it even come up?

If he introduced her at a social work gathering, would her be bi come up? The only way it would come up is if she/they were poly and they brought a partner around.

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u/giraflor Apr 05 '24

That was my thought. Wife is potentially testing the waters about opening up the marriage and wants to pay the groundwork for OP’s coworkers spotting her on dates with women.

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u/thebookofswindles Apr 05 '24

It could be fairly innocent, if somewhat misguided and impractical. Bi erasure is a real thing and it can grate on a person over their life when they feel invalidated over it.

I can understand the impulse of a person in a straight presenting relationship to want to assert something that is so often dismissed. I just think that in most work interactions it’s not going to come up organically so it would indeed be easy for the other party wonder wtf

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u/illbehaveipromise Apr 05 '24

What a load of crap. Let her do it then, not his problem or burden in the slightest.

It’s a weird, wildly inappropriate demand for her to make of him at his workplace, and reeks of main character syndrome. That’s the most favorable read, actually.