 ways to tell if you might be that guy. You can't stop posting about your partner on social media. You're basically hijacking their personality for your own gain. Many people do this to create a perfect picture of their life but it's better to show that you are your own person within your relationship. You don't recognize their individual identity outside of their relationship to you. The way that wife guys talk about their partner is so off-putting because it seems like they don't have any other rules in life aside from being a spouse. My wife? My wife? My wife? My wife? My wife? When you're posting don't only refer to them as my wife, there are plenty of other ways you can refer to your partner that don't make it about you. Your motivation for posting about your partner is tied to you. Do you actually want to celebrate your partner or do you want to be celebrated for celebrating them instead? Think twice before posting if it's the second one or you'll be in wife guy territory.