Omg, who the heck wants to go to those parties anyways.  My husband likes me to come along because he'd rather I was there, the party is more enjoyable for him that way.  There is something wrong with a marriage where you can't have a simple conversation about a party.  Really the last thing I ever want to do is go to my husbands work parties and frankly he has very little interest himself as he's with these people all the time and honestly a few of them he would never spend any time with if not for work because they are jerks.