Do you have an office romance story? Was it a success or failure?

I met my husband when we both worked at the same place—not in the same department (at first). We were friends for a number of years, and then began dating.

We got married and have been married 27 years.

I met my third long term partner at work. It was the kind of thing where it was her personality that attracted me. The relationship lasted around four years, but in the end, it didn’t work out because there wasn’t enough physical chemistry.

This was a long time ago, almost the stone ages. It was a time where drinking was promoted by the organization as a way for people to bond and to build team spirit. It was also an organization that hired mostly people in their young twenties. So it’s probably not a surprise that there were a lot of “office” relationships going on.

I don’t think anyone felt a need to keep such things much of a secret. I don’t know how long most of the relationships lasted, but I doubt if it was very long. More like high school or college than real life.

I think the real problem with office relationships is when the people are at different levels. Then there can be complaints of favoritism. But if they don’t have official power over each other, it doesn’t seem like it should be a problem, unless the organization has a rule against it.

We started out as a “coworkers with benefits” kind of relationship, but she wanted things to change, and never really told me that, so I never took her seriously. It did not end well, but we are close friends now.

I only had a casual (mostly physical) work romance at my job. He became a good friend now…because my feelings weren’t serious, we never had sex, just hot makeout sessions in all the wrong places…I chose my job over the sex…we both decided it was for the best…I hate that people who work together can’t date.

I did date a guy I worked with.There was no problem with it as I worked for my brother who owned the company.It was however,alittle uncomfortable after we stopped dating.

I married mine. :)

I worked as Office Manager in a small office of 4–6 employees. I started dating the Network Admin after being there a year or so. We have been married just over 6 years now.

I dated 2 women from places we worked together and it was no big deal in fact everyone there sort of cheered us on. Both moved on to other better jobs so when we broke up no issues there to deal with.