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Workplace romance: a good or really bad idea?

It started off in jest. She would jokingly refer to him as her office husband –after all, they spent so much time together at work. After a couple of months, and what felt like the most natural thing in the world, they started dating. And then she got promoted and became his boss. The dynamic changed and things got awkward –he would undermine her authority in front of her colleagues and as his supervisor, she would have to reprimand him, something he wouldn't take positively. The situation went so downhill that their superiors had to intervene.

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