"Coworkers with Benefits"
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
I'm joined by an anonymous woman who opens up about her 2+ year long, on and off, friends with benefits situationship with her coworker. We hear how things started, what boundaries and rules they laid down in order to make it work, and if they really set themselves up for success. She shares how feelings started to complicate things, how they prioritzed their friendship, and if they ended up turning things into a relationship or cutting it off completely.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People. |
| 0:10.1 | Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing their stories. |
| 0:16.1 | Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even cry along with us as we navigate the dating |
| 0:22.3 | scene together. Hello, my name is Anonymous. I am 29 years old and I am here today to share all |
| 0:30.3 | about being in a friends with benefits situation ship for the past two plus years with a coworker. |
| 0:37.4 | That is a lot. It's a lot. Oh, it's even messy to for the past two plus years with a co-worker. |
| 0:39.4 | That is a lot. |
| 0:40.2 | It's a lot. |
| 0:42.2 | Oh, it's even messy to say out loud. |
| 0:46.0 | So I, yep, I acknowledge that it is a lot to process. |
| 0:49.8 | It's also funny because you could go about that many different ways. You can say, like, I've been seeing a coworker for two plus years as friends with benefits. You can |
| 0:56.1 | say I've been friends with benefits with a coworker with a coworker for over two years. You can say |
| 1:00.1 | like there's so many angles. It's like the co-worker, it's the friends with benefits and it's |
| 1:06.1 | two years. Two over two years. Are you okay? Yes. there have been some breaks there. I've actually been in and out |
| 1:14.2 | of relationships in that time. But from when we first slept together to right now, it has been like an on and off |
| 1:21.2 | thing for over two years now. Wow. Okay. Take me back to the beginning. How did this start? Of course. So I started with my company |
| 1:31.0 | in January of 2018, fresh out of grad school. And he started in July of 2019, fresh out of undergrad. |
| 1:38.5 | So there's like a three year difference there. And when I first met him, like first day in the office, he's being introduced around. And like, first initial reaction is like, yeah, he's cute, right? Like, I can appreciate |
| 1:49.8 | a good looking human being. Like, he's cute. I didn't think anything of it. I don't really know |
| 1:55.7 | how things progressed to where they got to. But eventually he stopped by my desk every morning. |
| 2:00.7 | We started messaging over our work messaging system, both in the things progressed to where they got to, but eventually he stopped by my desk every morning. |
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