'He’d barely set our drinks down on the table before, in typically male fashion, he wanted to get straight into the nitty gritty of our situation. Namely, how long I’d ‘felt like this.' | ✍️ Louisa Merrick-White writes
That was the message I sent to two friends who were eagerly awaiting news of my first, first date in over four years. The only problem was that this message came just an hour after it had begun.
Then, in November of last year, an opportunity presented itself and I knew that the ‘when’ I’d been waiting for was finally happening. After six months of comments from colleagues, and becoming increasingly sick of wondering whether anything was ever going to happen between us, I went for it. After months of will they/won’t they, days of nervous butterflies and hours of preening, our venue for the evening was a suburban pub in South Yorkshire, chosen solely for its location halfway between our two homes.Firstly, I was embarrassingly overdressed for this very jeans and t-shirt kind of pub, and secondly, my date had no idea he was coming on aSome months later, he later told me that it was only as he arrived and saw me, overdressed as I was, that he realised what was happening.
He concurred, saying he’d liked me for a while but had also assumed I wasn’t interested, although might’ve asked me out anyway, had it not been for ‘the work situation’. Then it came time to address the elephant in the room – work. Despite their teasing, senior colleagues had always said that we could never be in a relationship and continue to work together because we were both in management positions.This led to an intense discussion about how we could feasibly date around the rota, keep things quiet from our colleagues and which of us would eventually leave when the time came.
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