Co-Workers Can Wreck a Marriage: At the Office, Divorce Is Contagious

WSJ Online ^ | 13 November 2003 | SUE SHELLENBARGER

[shrinkermd]

While the Other Woman (or Man) is usually cast as the villain of divorce in our culture, a Swedish study finds the workplace, the environment where many Americans spend most of their weekday waking hours, can play a destructive role.

[shrinkermd]

Basically, the author says is "where you work is where you play" or something to that effect.

[Lazamataz]

I recently had a woman I suspect did this. She was away for extended periods abroad. The dead giveaway, for me, was when she took a business call into the bedroom for privacy.

HE llo.

[sirchtruth]

Co-Workers Can Wreck a Marriage: At the Office,...

Completely wrong it is selfishness that will do this, not some tight blonde co-worker.

[FITZ]

More than half of married respondents to Dr. Lever's survey admit that when a co-worker flirts with them for fun, they flirt back. "What starts out as 'just fun' can escalate. And clearly, the marrieds are not out of the loop," Dr. Lever says.

It's not something that just happens. The marrieds are in the flirting loop, if they never get started, they don't find themselves in affairs. Flirting is a signal you are open to something more.

[palmer]

What do you mean by "had"?

[patton]

Interesting thread.

[general_re]

What do you mean by "had"?

He "had" her liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti...

[ErnBatavia]

Rule number one: "Don't get your meat where you get your bread".

(Or the accounting department version...."Don't dip your pen in company ink".)

[Lazamataz]

He "had" her liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti...

F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-......

[B Knotts]

OK...good. I'm glad I'm not the only one that read that that way...

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Interesting article. It reminded me of when my first long-term relationship broke up. I always suspected that her hanging out with friends that had poor dating experiences convinced her that our relationship was similarly doomed. I don't know that it rises to the level of contagion, but it could be accurately termed a phenomenon.

[bassmaner]

Come on everybody -- quit with the euphemisms:

It's "You don't sh*t where you eat"!

[touhy]

bing

[jimbo123]

Don't fish off the company pier.

[exile]

As everyone knows, Exile is one happenin' dude. And happily married to boot. What ever happened to the old notion that "You don't stick your pen in company ink"?