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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 does an office couple keep their romantic relationship from impacting their work relationship?

Dating and relationship coach Toni Coleman discusses office romances, including how to keep your romantic relationship from impacting your work relationship.

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Host: How does an office couple keep their romantic relationship from impacting their work relationship?

Toni Coleman: The key word here is boundaries and boundaries in general can be hard for a lot of people. The work life oozes along with them when they go home and vice-versa and keeping those clean boundaries in general are important. It's especially important when you are dating somebody from the office, you are going home and perhaps you were dealing with the difficult client that day or perhaps you are having problems with the coworkers, the boss, you bring that home, you end up spending off a lot of time and energy, talking about work, which is where you have just left. Even though people do that with the partner who doesn't work with them, it's still a little bit different because the person does not know these people they are talking about; it isn't their work environment, is at least something different from where they spend a good part of their life. So I think it's a very, very important that they have a kind of an agreement and one of the things that I often recommend to people is that they allow themselves; if they drive home together, that's a great time, where they take the metro or they can sit and talk about some work related stuff in the transition or if they come separately and come home, they can spend, the five minutes, each get five minutes; tell me about me your day. In five minutes you can easily cover the highlights and yeah if there is a particular problem that you really need some counsel then you can ask for. Otherwise, you cover the highlights; it's a little transition and then you get into a 'us' here at home, close the door in the office.

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