My work wife threw me under the bus to get a raise at the office. It was hard to realize I couldn't trust her anymore.

• I had a daily ritual with my work wife where we shared basically everything.
• She used the information to try to get a raise, and it felt like she betrayed my trust.
• After my experience with my work wife, I now put up boundaries with coworkers.

"I think I'm going to get divorced," I told my coworker, who became more like my work wife, on our lunch break. We were sitting in one of the hallways of our company's headquarters, one we liked to call our thinking spot. It featured repeating triangles angling down from the ceiling, all hollow and in a long row. When you looked through them, it was like meditating into a sci-fi passageway.