Dear Agatha,
I so much appreciate your column and the way you handle issues. I pray that the Lord will give you more wisdom and understanding to carry on.
Please, I need a little advice. Is it right to date a colleague in the same office?
Favour.
Dear Favour,
There is no categorical answer to this. It depends on the couple involved. Provided they can manage their emotions, and are matured about what they are doing, understand the laws of the different environments they daily subject their relationship to, handle the gossip and the excitement of being in love, there is nothing wrong in it.
The problem comes when the couple is unable to keep sentiments out of office, cannot maintain a fine balance between official hours and private time or unable to harmonise the different official relationships they have with their personal feelings for each other.
A lot of the time, couples find themselves conflicting their private feelings with official responsibilities. They allow problems at home come into official matters making impartial decisions impossible. The victim of this impasse between a feuding couples that work for the same employer is the organisation, which is why many managements discourage it.
As long as you can manage your feelings sufficiently to conform with the different structures you place your relationship in, there is no law against a couple working in the same place.
Good luck.
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