How prevalent are office romances?

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Toni Coleman, MSW is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship coach and founder of http://www.consum-mate.com. As a recognized expert, Toni has been quoted in many local and national publications including; The Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel, New York Daily News, Indianapolis Star and Newsweek newspapers and Family Circle, Woman's Day, Cosmo Style, Tango, Men's Health, Star (regularly quoted body language expert), People, and Nirvana magazines. She has been featured on abcnews.com, discovery.health.com, aolnews.com, MSN.com, Match.com and planetearthradio.com. Toni is also the featured relationship coach in “The Business And Practice Of Coaching,” (published by Norton, September 2005); and is the author of the forward for,” Winning Points With The Woman In Your Life, One Touchdown At A Time” ( published by Simon and Schuster, November 2005). Toni offers dating and relationship help and advice through her syndicated column, "Dear Dating Coach," and her popular monthly newsletter, "The Art of Intimacy." From March 2005 until December 2005, she was a weekly contributing commentator (love and dating coach) on the KTRS Radio Morning Show, (St. Louis, MO). Toni is a member of The International Coach Federation, The International Association of Coaches and The National Association of Social Workers.

How prevalent are office romances?

 

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Toni Coleman: Hi! I am Toni Coleman and I am a psychotherapist and the dating and relationship coach and today, we are talking about great meeting, dating and relating tips and now, we are going to talk a little bit about how to have an office romance.

Speaker: How prevalent are office romances?

Toni Coleman: Well, office romances depending on who you have talk to, there have been number of different surveys or studies done where people have been told about, if they have work with this before, if so, how often that kind of thing or are they presently working with people who are having one of these relationships and according to this research, it goes anywhere from about some 43% to about 58%. So somewhere in that range is probably the number that best describes the prevalent, but it's very high.

The matter of fact, people tend to meet people to date at work more than the most any other place and it is considered to be a very common occurrence. In many environment, it's actually considered a great way to meet somebody and kind of comes up for young people when they are job hunting that they should be kind of taking note and looking around and seeing who else works there because this is going up end being a lot of their social group and who are where they are they are going to meet people that they can actually date.

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