Dating my boss

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    tyralesly31
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    Hi April,
    I am in a weird relationship with my boss. Last year i started working at this office. My boss initiated conversations by texting me and one day asking me out for grocery shopping with him. After that we met a few times, went to the mall, I hung out at his place, we used to cook dinners together after work. We never got sexually involved because once, when he tried to hold my hand and rub against me, I told him I wasn’t ready to get involved sexually. I turned him down and went home.
    A couple of days later, I explained that I wasn’t looking for anything casual but something more long term and I didn’t want to mess up my work relationship.
    Fast forward, we met a few times after that, I went on a long vacation. When I got back we started texting each other again and he invited me home. This time I was feeling a strong chemistry for him. We went out to get dinner and I was slightly drunk, two glasses of wine. At his place I was trying to lean on him on the couch, tucking my head on his chest under his neck. I was feeling drunk due to the wine and I wasn’t feeling like heading home. I asked him if I could sleep there. It made him extremely uncomfortable. He told me that it was a bad idea and asked me to get going. I felt so embarrassed. He didn’t make any moves on me. He was cold and he has this thing of always kicking me out of the house and not letting me stayover. He walked me out and then he said, “ we are moving way too fast”.
    I said, “Okay, I understand” and left.
    Since then I am stuck wondering what just happened. So what was all this inviting me home about ?

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    April Masini
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    You took away his power position! He’s your boss and he put the moves on you — and you rejected him. This probably hurt him more than you realize because to him, you didn’t just reject him as a romantic partner, you took the control away from him as a man [i]and[/i] as your boss. Double whammy for him. Then,, when you came back, had wine and dinner, cuddled up and asked to spend the night, he probably felt like you were [i]really[/i] taking the lead — away from him! I’m sure you had no idea what was going on in his head and you probably meant no ill will at all, but from his point of view…. it was more than he was willing to deal with. That’s why he’s gone silent.

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