“Two years later, we’re still sneaking around with each other.
I know I need to let him go, but I’m in love.”
Weaskedmembers of theBuzzFeed Communitywho have eitherparticipatedin or witnessed anoffice romance/affairto tell us theirstories.
We received so many wildddd submissions that we had to make a part four!
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“This was several years ago when I worked in a large office.
A female colleague and I became friends, and we would take walks during work and have lunch together.
One day, on a walk, she said she wanted to have sex.
I was recently married, and she had been for several years.
We would have sex in my minivan before work and on a wooden trail where we walked.
Then, we started commuting to work together.
So, the affair escalated in my home before work.
One day, we had sex after work at my house.
My wife came home from her job.
We were not caught yet, but it was a little obvious.”
“After five years, she said we couldn’t continue.
I was a little heartbroken, but I understood.
My wife and I were together until her passing.
She may have guessed but never asked.
I only regret the affair slightly.”
“I was in a horrible marriage, and my boss and I began flirting regularly.
We worked at a dealership in different departments.
I left my husband for him, which was great because I needed to get out.
We would sneak around at work.
People had suspicions but couldn’t prove anything.
I was let go from my position due to the suspicions.
We still see each other, but he’s habitual.
He got caught with another coworker after I had left six months later.
He was fired and is now a GM at another dealership.
I’m sure he still gets with employees, but I can’t prove it.
Two years later, we’re still sneaking around with each other.
I know I need to let him go, but I’m in love.
I know I could never trust him.”
He was newly divorced, and I was a college student.
He had a high position then, and I had just started out at this company.
Fast forward 10 years later.
We ended up in a hotel room together.
We’re still together today, even though he’s 55 and I’m 35."
“I was a 23-year-old intern in the office of a well-known politician in his mid-40s when we met.
I worked late, he worked late, and we spent a lot of time together.
He was married but didn’t see his wife or kids very much.
I did regret it because he and his wife are still together.
We didn’t speak after my time in the office and don’t interact anymore.
It was a few short hookups.”
“I was a TA for a handsome professor in his 50s.
I was much younger, obviously.
He was divorced, and we would hook up after hours whenever possible.
The sex was the best I’ve ever had, and I regret not carrying it on.
He died last year, and I miss him dearly.”
“A hot guy appeared at my workplace one day and commented on my accent.
He was very charming but married!
One thing led to another, and he convinced me to leave my job and work for him.
I was fired from the job.
I found out I was pregnant a while later.
He hid it from his wife and didn’t support his child.
Things have been bad for me ever since.”
“The post office is a hotbed of sexual tension that often turns kind of incestuous.
It’s always obvious when people have a thing going.
It was hot, deeply emotional, and the impetus for both of our divorces.
I was 45, and she was 35.
She was devastated, and I’m still devastated.
This woman ruined me, and I still see her every day.
Regrets are abundant in my daily life.”
“I worked at a dealership, and many affairs were happening, but these were the juiciest ones.
He’d usually take them to the finance office in the middle of the day.
Remember that this guy had a beautiful wife (who seemed very nice) and two great kids.
He ended up hooking up with one woman he flirted with while she was there with her boyfriend.
She was about 20 years younger than him.
She broke things off with her boyfriend and started dating the sales manager.
He spoiled her a ton.
His wife found out, and they got a divorce.
He and this younger girl are still together to this day.
Secondly, the dealership owner would bring escorts late at night to his office.
The same sales manager mentioned above would also partake, and they would often have threesomes and foursomes.”
“I had strong feelings for a slightly older coworker and struggled with them for quite a while.
He flirted with me a lot, made me laugh, and made me feel seen.
After a while, I found out he had a girlfriend, and it turns out I knew her!
After that, he still flirted with me, but nothing else happened.
We hung out after work, I met his friends, and things were largely platonic.
However, I had fallen for him and had my blinders on.
He led me on for the longest time until we finally became friends with benefits.
I thought that I was one step closer to him finally admitting his feelings for me.
After all, why not?
“But the time never came.
The short of it was that he didn’t like me ‘like that.’
But I learned a tough lesson during this time.
If someone has you second-guessing their feelings for you, they don’t have feelings for you.
Don’t be like me and assume attention means affection.”
“It was with a much younger female coworker, my evening manager at a FedEx terminal.
She was in her early 30s, and I was in my mid-50s and married, which she knew.
Very few folks knew.
We would usually stick around until everyone had left in the evening and have fun.
She had never been with anyone before, so I was her first.
It lasted several months, and then it just kind of fizzled out.
“I worked at a car dealership.
We started an affair within months, and it lasted for a couple of years.
But that was just the tip of a huge iceberg.
We talked for a minute; then she spilled it: She was one of his girlfriends, too.
We both felt so used.
I found a very nice single man, and she is happily married.
He got divorced and moved.”
“This was THE story in middle school.
The male orchestra teacher was actively having sex with one of the art teachers.
They hooked up during school hours.
One day, the art teacher literally limped out of the orchestra teacher’s office, all disheveled.
“It started as a teacher/instructional aide work situation.
We were both married (second marriages for both) but had similar child-rearing beliefs.
We began meeting at the university bar before and after classes as we both worked to advance our careers.
We would talk for hours about all types of subjects and interests.
I was hired in her district two years later, and we began where we left off.
It was more of a friendship than anything else.
Then, we were both going through divorces simultaneously (unbeknownst to either of us).
Both of our two previous spouses have passed on due to either substance abuse or serious health issues.
We have traveled the world and are immensely in love.
We both know that we have a deep connection that our previous marriages lacked.”
Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
