One of my coworkers who is a really awesome dude but who I realize I’d never have a relationship with, I slept with on and off for about 4 months. There was never a moment of weirdness and we are really good friends at work, outside of work, in general. We both just had the same mindset going in I guess even though we never talked about it. We actually went through a few more complications that generally would have made things potentially awkward for a friendship but we just approached it as adults, dealt with it, and everything is still great. We definitely have a unique relationship, but it works for us simply because of who we are. I do not think it would work for everyone, or maybe most people. But it’s over at this point because I am in a new (almost) relationship, but it was really fun while it lasted. And still no one knows.
But here’s a funny side story too embarrassing to share fully with most of my friends. The last time we got together, I had been in this habit of affectionately biting people (I know it sounds weird but….I don’t think it really is that weird) so we were both drunk and getting it on really aggressively in an alley and I turned around and bit him, and this is what he did in return. The sad part is I didn’t remember that happening so I was shocked and confused by it the next day. Also, I had to go to work, where we wear short sleeves, and it looks exactly like a bite mark. As I’m really close with a lot of my coworkers, not much goes unnoticed and even though I tried to be vague as to the origins of the bite mark, eventually they got it out of me. Not the details, but I know there was speculation. Luckily he was out of town at the time and by the time he returned it had fizzled out. I thought the whole thing was pretty funny. The end.