"Every year comes around again..."
According to a survey conducted by the amateur portal "Big7.com" in 2015, one in four people cheat. One in four - I think that's a lot. Our Christmas party this year is taking place in a few days and I've secretly been wondering who's with whom?
The portal's survey took place in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Out of 16,300 respondents, 23% of women and men confirmed that they had a fling at a company Christmas party. And 61% of them with a colleague, 24% with a superior or boss.
How many of you are among the sixty-one percent of cheaters? To be fair, I have to say that I count myself among them. Must? Yes, from today's perspective, yes. I was in a relationship that wasn't intact - and that's the worst follow-up sentence a woman can utter when she admits to cheating. Such a sentence would also be hard to hear from a man. I'm cheating ... - because I can't get out of this relationship any other way, ... - because I'm afraid of missing out on something, ... - because I was drunk, ... - out of revenge, or, or, or. But I digress.My waking up the next morning next to my colleague wasn't a bad thing. It was actually the long-awaited finale to our sizzling office routine. The sex was perfect! Which seems to be rather atypical for a Christmas party stranger, because usually 71 percent have sex on the spot: in the office, in the toilet, in the broom cupboard, in the car/taxi or at the bowling alley.My colleague and I weren't discovered and I confess I didn't confess it to my ex either. Who would do that just before the gift-giving? According to the survey, 11%. Two percent less keep quiet and 73 percent say they don't talk, but instead make themselves feel guilty.
After that one night, my colleague and I kept our hands off each other ... The attraction was gone. So did my ex after a fairly short time. It was the same for fifty-two percent of those surveyed, there was no encore. It was different for the remaining respondents. Here, almost a third (31%) were still in the mood for each other and of this third, 12% were in a longer date or even a relationship.
What always amazes me at the annual Christmas parties is that you definitely can't make it age-dependent. It's not always just the trainee who throws herself at the head of department. The women and men with more life experience or the male colleague whose bachelor party we've all been to also like to get involved.
Mmm, with this knowledge and your own experiences, should you actually still let your partner go to Christmas parties?