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Originally Posted by meander
If they have Friday night office drinks, like many places do, or other work things, go along if you can and meet his coworkers, that might reassure you?
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I don't mean to criticize (I'm doing it in the spirit of helping out the original poster, at least), but I would not recommend this.
I've been married for 9 years. In that entire time, my wife and I have kept our home lives and our work lives separate as much as possible (I'm back in school, but the same rules still apply). I mean, we talk about our work/student lives, and occasionally meet the other people's co-workers/studnets, but we never socialize with them on a regular basis. This keeps your work relationships at work and your personal relationships at home.
Of course it would be a different situation if one of us happened to be working with a good friend of ours, but that's not the case. Since your boyfriend is starting at a new job, I'm guessing both you and he have other friends outside of work, so that shouldn't be an issue.