The flirting dilemma

With increasing stress and spending maximum time at the workplace, there is no way but to make your professional life more interesting. And one of the ways to do so, for many, is casual flirting with their colleagues. Even if they are married or in a serious relationship, many don’t find anything wrong in harmless flirting.

Content provider Vivek Gawade says, “I think being in a relationship doesn’t imply that you can’t flirt with somebody else. If you are loyal to your partner, that’s enough. Since there is a lot of stress at the workplace, you need to have some deviations from work stress. Casual flirting makes the atmosphere stress-free. It just adds the much needed spice to your life.” But as they say, there are always two sides of a coin. Many just don’t approve to casual flirting since in a way it amounts to cheating. Singer Tochi Raina (of Oh Pardesi fame) is married and thinks it’s sacrilegious to flirt with another woman. “Since I am married, I consider my relationship with my wife very sacred. If I am flirting with another woman, it means somewhere down the line I am not being loyal to my wife. And in a way, it will destroy the balance in my marital life. So, I would never get into flirting, even if casually,” he says.

Actor Poonam Jhawer feels that casual flirting is the order of the day. “It’s always fun to have a good conversation and to casually flirt. If you are in a serious relationship, you will have a great rapport and understanding with your partner which ultimately amounts to the fact that he would understand that casual flirting is harmless.”