What do you think about office romances?  

No, NO, No, Never! You know that old saying, you don't s*it where you eat. This is your job, your bread and butter, the job that supports your family. People should never combine the two. So many people have lost their jobs on acocunt of this. I am against it. This is only my opinion.

In the insurance company, the boss must know his line, if he failed then the other party will obviously will take advantage.

The boss, I gather required the overrideing com. (that is what agencey leaders and managers receive for running a agency.) so he must be be aware of his position.

If it is a husband and wife situation, they are aware that this is biz and nothing comes in the way.

I myself was an agency manager in a major insurance company, my wife helps me in the admin work. In the office it is work and nothing comes in the way. We were quite successful in running the agency.

No, No, No and No. I can't see how you could hide the relationsip working at the same place, like they say, you can run but you can't hide. I do think it would eventually cause jealousy,you know how that works. I just can't see it working out. You have a better chance of a relationship working in different jobs. Love is a great thing but it just doesn't sound like a good idea nto be in the same space 24/7. Take Care

I don't see an affair at the office as anything positive. when employees find out there will always be resentment of the other employees. One seems to have power over the rest, in that he/she can get away with more because they are the boss's favorite. Everyone will notice over time and talk will increase. I don't see where it would work out.

If the affair is very discrete and the people involved don't make others feel inferior, then it might work for a while. I have seen within the hospital I worked at a nurse took a doctor away from his wife and married him herself... but there was no one else vying for his attention.

There was another nurse that took another doctor away from his wife. She was his office nurse.. they are still married after 20 years.

As an outsider, I see these as things we have to accept, but I don't see them as positive unnecessarily.

I do not think that work place love relationships are appropriate and things just as you described. It is defiantly not fair to the rest of the staff, the same goes for family working in the same place I work at such a place there were two family's that had several family members working. One family you knew that they were related because they looked similar, the other family you knew they were related by their work they came when they wanted did what they wanted didn't give a dam about other staff. It was all about them. I just put my head down and did my job and kept out of every ones ways, Oh yes one family did the clean up while the other family 's mother was manager of the establishment. I am sure you can figure out who was who.

Professionalism should be maintained at work places, Romancing at work place is not good, i mean we meet people at work places we should carry on with work at office places and when it comes to personal relationships, you shouldn't be in the office while doing that ...

I think the office may not be the most ideal place for romance.. many places forbid this because it might affect work performance.. staff may share company secrets etc...

That's not cool people you can't mix your business with romance or any affair with employee it will make you miserably. You will never had a good concentration in your job and if your boss will find out you'll get kick out in the office.

Any relationship can be made open and known. There is no point in pretending its not there. Pretending in the first place is refusing to admit the relationship exists. For Monique, well, unless she can get people to divorce and marry her, I doubt she will go anywhere very far. But for a guy to want to divorce and marry her, I think the guy is dumb.

In my own point of view, I really don't like the office romance just for a simple reason that it will not going to work out. Why? mainly because there are so many things to consider. First, the environment -- I don't think office is a good environment for the couple to show off the affection they have for each other. Second, the officemates -- you can never really tell that there are so many nosy people especially in your workplace. Third, I think there are some companies that hinder their employees to have a romantic involvement since it could affect the efficiency of the employee. Anyhow,maybe Anita could re-evaluate herself and think things over and over again if the relationship could really work out....;)