A
female
age
41-50,
anonymous
writes:I'm married and have been working with my married male boss (who is the same age as me) for a few months now. We seem to get along well and he often confides in me about other colleagues, buys me little work-related trinkets and I've even had a "hug". At work I've been branded by pretty much everyone as his obvious favourite. Recently however, things have become a little strained between us. We were both due to take a day trip to an event. I thought it obvious to ask him if we should take the short journey together (as I thought it polite?) but he made his excuses and told me to go on my own. I was confused at this. What had I done? What was wrong with me? I took it to heart and things got a little tense between us with neither saying anything on the subject. Well, went to the event (saw him enroute but didn't wave). We pretty much ignored each other the whole day apart from the odd moment or two where he just "had" to come up to me to ask about work. Event over, I thought I'd forget the whole thing but we're in a meeting with my other colleagues and he starts talking about the event that "he" went to. He was talking like He went there on his own and I was not there at all!...why would he do this????... Am I reading too much into it?
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reader, Hugh.J  +, writes (1 April 2012):
 Perhaps somebody has said something to his wife? If the way he appears to favour you is common knowledge, it does seem likely, and therefore he is playing safe in order to silence the rumour mill?
Nothing to do with this issue, but I wish this site would stop underlining with red squiggles my perfectly correctly spelled English words, e.g. favoUr and rumoUr.
If I wanted to be an American I would have thrown 90% of my vocabulary away!
Sorry, Yanks - just joking.....
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