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Date Posted: 13:22:38 10/30/01 Tue
Author: Islandgirl
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Kind of personal, but relates to the MSR

All right, this question is kind of personal and it doesn't really have anything to do with Mulder and Scully, although it was obviously inspired by MSR. Anyone who thinks I'm being too nosy is welcome to just skip over this.
I'm just wondering: If *you* worked were unmarried and worked with an attractive member of the opposite sex, also unmarried and approximately your same age, and it soon became obvious that their was some mutual, unfulfilled sexual tension floating around your office. . .how long would you hold out before letting the relationship become romantic/sexual?? Six months?? Six years???
Would it make a difference if your company had specific rules against employees in the same division dating each other?? (This was often cited as one of the reasons Mulder and Scully couldn't or shouldn't get together romantically, but it never made much sense to me. They were *ALWAYS* breaking regulations. Why would they suddenly become sticklers for doing everything by the book when it came to prohibitions against romance between partners??) Would it make a difference if the attractive member of the opposite sex was your boss (or you were his/her boss) rather than if he/she was a co-worker at the same level as you were?? (The exact work relaitonship between Mulder and Scully has sometimes been debated. For the most part, they seem to be equal partners. But in the Pilot episode she says she's been sent to "assist" him and there are occasional references, throughout the series, to Mulder being the head of the X-Files division; which would mean he's kinda/sorta Scully's boss.) Finally, has anybody around here ever ended up married to, or in a long-term romantic relationship with, somebody they met at work??
I've been married for a long time, and we met in college, so I'm honestly curious as to how these romance/career things work. I somehow feel I'm not getting a realistic portrayal from movies and TV shows, which always show people either jumping into bed together within the first month of when they meet or waiting for four or more years.

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