Love At Work: Healthy or Unhealthy?

Love is very broad term. When one speaks of love, they may refer to parental love, friendly love, love for nature, love for yourself, love for your God—love just comes in different colors.

However, your workplace is a small world, and love contained in such a place is limited. You can choose to love your work, you can have love your friends, you can love the food at the cafeteria, and even your workmates. Your boss isn’t excluded, by the way.

Love in anything is inevitable in any place in the first place. Mr. Cupid can always hit your heart in your very desk. But is it healthy? Or it doesn’t just work when you love at work?

Love at work can work because the two of you share a common interest. A common interest is something to talk about. Even at a date, when you found out that the both of you love watching basketball games, for example, you both get the excitement of talking about your favourite basketball teams, your favourite basketball players, and you both update each other for the schedule of the games. When you date someone who is at the same workplace as you, you can always talk about the tasks that you do every day.

Because you work in the same workplace, you may also share the same problems regarding work. Because of these shared problems, you can both talk about it anytime without having to explain terms that your office only knows. Also, you or your partner also knows the person they are referring to because you also know the same people in the workplace. With this, you can both find solutions at a faster pace together. Sharing the same problems at work, whether it be regarding the tasks or the people, can unload more of the problems you or your partner are already bringing.

However, love at workplace can be just as harmful not only for you, but also for your work. Everyone knows that not all love stories end up with a happy ever after. Once you and your partner breaks up, you will still be seeing each other again in the workplace every day unless you decide to resign the next day. But if your boss is smart enough to realize such a childish reason to get out of your current workplace, then you will be suffering every day to see the face of a love that was lost. Consequently, you may focus on your feelings than on your work, and you may not work that effectively like before. If you do, then not will you only have a broken heart, but also a mad boss for a lame work done.

Overall, it all still depends on the emotional stability of the person. You can always love anyone your heart chooses. But if you know your priorities, love can never be a hindrance to work, and vice versa.

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