Dear LFTP: the office dating-gossip letter
- How can I make my coworkers stop gossiping about my dating life without causing workplace tension?
- When you need help — and don't know Jesus or didn't think of him — where do you go?
A listener letter: divorced a few years ago and not remarried, he regales married coworkers with his dating stories and has become the talk of the office, called names like 'skank'; he asks how to make it stop without workplace tension. The hosts debate whether the writer is really the man or a woman one cubicle over, then read the 'Secular' answer — the irony-laden bachelor defense ('You are not a skunk. You are a bachelor'). Their counsel: stop telling the stories (and ideally stop creating them); a host shares how he handled a similar coworker by quietly walking away during the stories until the man asked why, and argues the most effective witness is simply living a different life that points to the Savior.
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