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November 13, 2007
Alternatives To An Office Romance
It's not like you really need another reason to check out dating personals. There are cool people to meet and there is fun to be had, but if you ever needed extra incentive, it's that it's a good way to keep your dating-life and your professional life separate and thereby avoid getting involved in a risky office romance. Everyone knows that a relationship that goes wrong can be an unbelievably stressful thing to deal with. People loose sleep over their love life and in the best possible circumstances a relationship can be the kind of thing that distracts you from everything else that needs your attention. Trying to keep your dating life separate from the rest of your life, at least initially, is a pretty good idea.
Take all the hours you have in a day and subtract what you spend sleeping and commuting, then look and see how the rest of your time is divided. Obviously, everyone spends their days differently, but a lot of us spend more time at work than doing anything else. This means, also, that we spend more time with the people we work with than a lot of the other people in our lives. I like to get to know the people I work with. It makes getting up and going to work a lot more enjoyable and fulfilling. I also don't like to put artificial restrictions on relationships. A good match might even be worth the price of a good job, but there is no way to tell how things will work out. What seems like something that is worth the risk can easily turn into one of those legendary dating disasters.
Now, there are plenty of exceptions. For people with careers that they are really personally invested in, workplace romances actually make a lot of sense to me. You need to be with someone that understands and appreciates your lifestyle, and sometimes that really means someone in the same business as you, that also really cares about the work your doing. For the most of us though, an office romance might well be something worth avoiding. That's just something to toss around before diving head first into your next workplace relationship.
Posted by Leon at November 13, 2007 2:35 AM
