office affair
Cubicle love story
An office affair is a romantic or sexual relationship between coworkers, typically one that's secret or at least discreet.
The term often implies the relationship is illicit—one or both parties may be married to someone else, or workplace policies may forbid such entanglements: Their office affair lasted two years before anyone found out.
The confined quarters and daily proximity of office life create conditions ripe for such relationships.
- workplaceEmployment location
- romanceLove and its excitement
- secretConcealed information
- coworkerFellow employee
- forbiddenNot allowed
scandal · fling · colleague · stolen glances · desk · gossip · elevator · liaison · inappropriate · after-hours · late night · conference · tryst · HR · human resources · hushed · chemistry · power dynamic
- forbidden loveforbidden love, forbidden romance, illicit love, secret love, forbidden fruit
- infidelityadultery, adulteress, cheating, cheater, unfaithful
- affairs
office affairmarriage
Formal union between partners
matrimony · marital fidelity · committed relationship · engagement · wedlock
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