by Daniella Antelo

Created on: November 19, 2008

I love working with my spouse. We've been working together our entire relationship. We actually met one week after I was hired. We were first just co-workers, then friends, then we developed a relationship. It's funny because it was actually encouraged by our superiors for quite a while. Where our place of work is, there are a lot of family members that either work for the same division or in other business units within the corporation. So it's not unheard of for spouses to work for the same company. There are those rules though, about not letting it interfere with your work. Those that do, are usually young and new to the 'working with your spouse' world. It does have it's moments, but you have to know how to balance and work around it.

What's good about our situation is that he and I don't work in the same area. Under the same building, yes. He has his own unit that he runs and I work in another department. Now, all areas of this division have to overlap at some point during the day in order to get our jobs done. Working 'together' was a great way for us to get to know each quicker in the beginning of our relationship. Now, it's great for us to bounce ideas off of each other to get better at our jobs. We can help each other out when we can, and it's not a struggle to try and understand the details of what the other one is trying to say, because we are both very familiar with the business. Blowing off steam at the end of the day about work is cool to, for the same mentioned reasons.

I also enjoy having that confidant at work that you can share the gossip with and not have to worry that it's going to slip out anywhere. It's also nice to be able to give little whispered flirtatious remarks to each other in passing, (that you would never say to just any co-worker), and it's not innappropriate. It kind of helps you get through the day with a more positive vibe. You just have to remember where to draw the line. If we have a lunch break or something then it's fair game of what we can talk about. During office hours, we have become really good at keeping it mainly work stuff. We'll sometimes slip in a personal conversation while we are at the photocopier though. Like what we want to do for supper or what movie we want to see on the weekend. After a couple of years, anyone and everyone knows we are a couple, so we don't have to hide anything.

Carpooling is also a big one! He's got a company vehicle so, once in a while we'll drive in with each other to save on gas. The

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