We have no business even knowing each other. But the value of my work wife cannot be overstated | Emily Mulligan

What good is piping hot gossip when you have to explain every character's years-long back story and their annoying snacking habits?

Forget the shrieks and hugs at the arrivals hall or the way the traffic parts for an ambulance with the lights and sirens on. For me, there is nothing more wholesome than lunchtime in the CBD seeing two people who demographically have no business knowing each other glued to one another. They don't see the traffic, the eye contact is unbroken. The bond is strong.

They're work wives.

Emily Mulligan is a writer based in Sydney