How to Give Each Other Space at Work During an Office Romance

If you're dating a co-worker, it's easy to want to spend lots of time together inside and outside of work. But if you give each other space, your relationship will flourish faster. It will also help prevent your co-workers from gossiping about you.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Hold back on your urges to call her every time you hear something funny. Instead, save up those conversations for after work or during a group lunch where you all can share your funny moments of the day.

2. Consider making new office friends. If you focus your relationship energy on new friends and your work, you will find your time together more fulfilling.

3. Remind yourself to remain professional. That means neither of you should be sending private emails, calling each other during work hours to flirt or touching each other inappropriately at work.

4. Consider asking to be on different projects if you work in the same department. The time away from each other will allow each of you to focus on your own work and get projects completed rather than build your office romance.

5. Move your desk if you've always sat close to one another so neither one of you is hovering over the other. If this isn't possible, try to respect one another's time and space by not listening in to each other's conversations.

6. Alternate your hours. If you work a later or earlier shift than your paramour, your office romance will seem fresh and fleeting each day. If you both must work the same shift, make sure you spend time during your shift doing tasks in separate rooms if possible.

Tips & Warnings

• Discuss ways to give each other space before you start work on Monday. A few simple tips may be all it takes to keep your office romance hot, or you two might need to take more drastic steps to give each other space.
• Don't allow yourselves displays of affection at work, even if you think they are private. At some point, you will be interrupted, and you will make your co-workers feel jealous or uncomfortable.
• Don't try to spend more time together at work, or the two of you will feel crowded. The less face time you have at work, the more stories you will have to tell each other later on.
• If your office lover is your boss, try to avoid having lots of private meetings together.

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