You make sure to coincidentally pop over to the fridge at the exact same time as her every day, just so you can have a bit of a flirt. She seems to like you too, which is weird, because you never actually take anything out of the fridge so, like, what are you doing over there? Are you just hanging out by the fridge? It's really odd behaviour and people have noticed.
Anyway - all this pining is having an adverse effect on your work, but how about your health?
Well, apparently you're doing your body and mind a favour - at least according to Jason Hughes, Founder of Leicester Centre for Psychodynamic Counselling, who told Stylist that fancying someone at work not only totally normal but can actually offer plenty of benefits.
"We all want to feel good [and] crushes are our imaginative and creative way of identifying those things we prize in others, which we struggle to see in ourselves," he said.
'Crushes help us to feel alive, help us to feel, and help us to imagine – this is especially important when we might feel that we are trapped in a routine, stuck in a job or relationship where there is little new and vibrant – they highlight what we might want, what we might be missing – who we might want to be rather than (just) who we might want to be with.
"Don't ignore them, but pay careful attention to them and what they might be saying about you…"
Intriguing stuff.
