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by s1artibartfast 635 days ago
The money question is did you work in person with your wife, and do you think you would have started the relationship if you were remote coworkers?

Maybe I'm small minded, but I struggle to imagine people starting office romances from remote relations.

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That statement might not have been clear. I meant in my entire career there are only three people I keep in touch with that I have ever worked with (well actually five) including my wife.

I started dating my now wife in 2011. I wasn’t working remotely then.

But at 37, I had an active social life and a large friend group of people outside of work from the gym. I was in the fitness industry as a part time fitness instructor. In an alternate universe I might have gotten serious about someone in my friend group.

You would be amazed at how easy it is to meet woman as one of the few straight male fitness instructors.

My wife and I moved to a new city last year. I make it a point to fly back to our former city around once a quarter to hang out with a group of friends to play cards, we travel together with another friend group at Least once a year and we end up in each others city for random reasons throughout the year and I go to my childhood home/where I went to college to go to football ganes with some of my college friends