Ooh, that guy in Rock The Cradle of love was so adorable. He could have parked his slippers any time!
By the way, I too have a career and so do most of the people I work with. There are many marriages and relationships that started with co-workers dating so I don't see that your argument holds much water.
Given the lack of other opportunities in your case, if you met a co-worker who you got on well with, it would be silly not to be good friends with them.
A guy came walking down a deserted street one night when he saw a man crawling around on the ground underneith a street light. When he got close enough to see who it was he that it was Mulla Nasrudin, so he stopped and asked what he was up to. Mulla Nasrudin answered that he'd lost his house-key and that he was looking for it. The guy got down on all fours to help looking for the lost key but after a while of fruitless search he muttered "Are you sure you lost your key out here on the street?" which prompted Mulla to respond "No, but it's too dark in my yard!"
Thirty percent of workplace romances lead to marriage. That's higher than any other social sector.
The management's discouragement of workplace romance is there for the benefit of the company, not of the people involved.
Thirty percent of workplace romances lead to marriage. That's higher than any other social sector.
The management's discouragement of workplace romance is there for the benefit of the company, not of the people involved.
Of course it is. They sound like a very buttoned-up bunch indeed. GuessWho, if you meet a lady at work you would like to date, follow your heart and go for it.
You don't have to leave and neither does she - that's just silly to suggest one of you has to go.
Monica Lewinsky might have been naive but she was also put in a position of subordination by a very powerful man. I don't think it has much to do with her prefrontal cortex - it's more of a matter of her being exploited.
I just hope you're not going to go on endlessly about this under 25 stuff because it is starting to get exasperating already and it's just a theory anyway.
Oh for goodness sakes! If you say "Groovy Druid" one more time, I will blow my stack! Never mind about anybody else.
Funny this. Hubby and I met (he was just 24 and I was 21) through motorcycles (we were both trainee instructors) and, when we decided to marry, he got me a job in his workplace so that we could commute together. We married soon after my 22nd birthday; I'll be 50 in nine days and we'll be celebrating our 28th anniversary on Boxing Day.
What does that say (a) about workplace married couples and (b) about maturity? Probably nothing at all!
I'd be rather dubious of a company that actively discourages romance between its workers: maybe the bosses expect employees to be "married to their job" - not a particularly healthy state of affairs.
Yes, I can certainly see if there was a romance and then it broke up it would cause distraction and loss of productivity but the solution is to shift one of the people somewhere so they don't have to interact with their ex.
Maybe GuessWho could mean a nice lady through Gideon; especially if Gideon is in an international club or something similar.
Well, maybe Gideon's sister would like to be friends?
It sort of seems like RoboCop, additional Prime Directives such as
4. Don't go out with non-Christians or
GuessWho,
I'd be interested in why you don't go out with non-Christians. Have you had a previous bad experience with a non-Christian that was due to religious differences?
Alison
GuessWho,
I'd be interested in why you don't go out with non-Christians. Have you had a previous bad experience with a non-Christian that was due to religious differences?
Alison
Oops, I just re-read that after posting and realized it sounds judgemental! Didn't mean it that way, truly, I'm just interested.
Alison
You know, Lucie1 is very nice. Let me float a question, how close are you, Lucy, to Washington, DC? Are you even on the same continent?
GuessWho - Sorry, Lucie isn't even in the same hemisphere (about nine thousand miles from Washington).
It is my overly developed pre-frontal cortex. There always seems to be a little voice in the back of my head that says what if you are sorry, and a woman preacher at my church that keeps reminding me how Christian guys get hurt in mixed faith relationships.
Mm, that's interesting. At the workshop on autism held at my workplace last night, one of the things the lecturer said was that autistics, if they do marry, tend to have relationships with people from radically different cultures/countries, because the foreigner thinks his/her AS partner is an example of the country's dominant culture (and particularly if the language and religions differ between the two individuals.) Therefore there's more leeway for "oddness" in the relationship to be chalked up to cultural differences. That actually occurred for me, as I've said, Vernu is a Sri Lankan Hindu, and I'm atheist. We've been happily married for the past 23 years!
Thanks for explaining that.
Alison
GuessWho, I don't think it's anything to do with your prefrontal cortex as such - it's just that you're very ambivalent about commitment. It's okay to admit you feel that way and at least you don't lead women on.
That is very interesting, I want my pastor to see that.
Ah okay. It's just that I get this distinct feeling that you've got a real fear of commitment despite also wanting it.