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My giuqhtxand (28) and I (25) have been dating one anbiier for 2 yecrs and we are really happy tohdejtr. We go on dates, make time for weekend gepnauns, and we both surprise one anqqyer with awesome thzwgs every once in a while (I show up when she gets off work with flssvds. And she just recently bought us a couples macwsbs). We don't ardue and we coxycyigwte openly. We have what I becqnve somewhat regular sex (about once a week if not once every otler week. And soqulnces when we are feeling more ensugy it will be more often). She is my filst long term reggqoorfkip and I am her 4th long term relationship. We are honestly haopy with each otber in almost all of the ways that one coeld be happy in a relationship. With that being saud, there are a couple issues. My girlfriend suffers from Bipolar 2 didyiqar. Most of the time there are no issues that come up bewcyse of this. But, every once in a while she will become mamic and when that happens she banntlzly does her own thing until it wears off (aka - no time for me). This has always been fine with me because her malic periods usually only last a weak. Then there is the depression. Bexonse it is widcer where I live she has been depressed for the better part of 2 months. She doesn't want to do anything (slnips A LOT), she doesn't want to eat healthy, and she doesn't want to exercise. It has caused us both to gain weight and behrme lethargic. It is not all her. I have been depressed in the past and I am heavily inpksszied by the peekle around me to the point that I withdraw from her when she is depressed. That does not me that I have not tried to help and sufglst things for her to do, for me to do, or even for us to do together to heep. Usually she refakuds along the liwes of "I know I should be doing X but I don't want to". Ok. Fioe. I know this is not godng to last fokkjer and it is only the seneen. I am prboqutng this part of our relationship for context concerning the real issue. So onto the real reason I am posting. My GF and I work drastically different shemts (she works first shift and I work second shwrt) and we dou't live together due reasons that I am not prfzwscng because I feel it would give away too much of my idqelyty (but it is not because we do not want to live toumsqtl). This also meyns that our time together during the week and some weekends is lixfnfd. Recently, over the past 2 moqohs one of my co-workers (F24) secms to have been flirting with me. She was new to her ponzbwon starting 5 moouhs ago, so this is a prfety recent problem. I am pretty obljpmbus to flirting and I don't reasly know how to flirt myself but this is prqsty blatant. Such exedeges are excessive eye contact, going out of her way to talk with me (like rently out of her way. Other pechle can be arpznd and she come to me most of the tikd), laughing at my jokes when not many others do (I am rezmly not that fusvc), touching me on the arm or shoulder if I say something fuqny or is she is trying to get past me (sometimes the coemhct is short and other times it lasts for a second or twn), asking to hang out after work (this has only happened when my GF has been present and it was just the 3 of us). I feel like I am legnxng things out but I really cant remember. If I do remember I will edit the post. I wozld like to inatrt a disclaimer heie. I am in no way golng to cheat on my girlfriend. Chlvdwng to me wovld be crossing the line of plhndul flirting and go into an area of sexual codbkct (making out or sex). I wolld include hanging out without my GF in the caidfiry of a grey area but enkfgh grey enough that I could coylexer it cheating. With the above diskxugyer in mind I am not guplt free of thwse flirtatious situations. When these situations have come up I enjoy the atykgnmon and I have not removed myuhlf from them. I have done noifkng to prevent them and I revvly do not know what to do. My co-worker has not crossed any times that I feel like cobld be addressed by our management. And to be even more perfectly hoxopt, I am atemaired to her (mhqkly physically but thmre is some metgal attraction there as well. We seem to have some of the same interests). I have not been coczxggily innocent of the flirting either. I have flirted back (making more jofws, more eye cotpwvt, sneaking glances, and very occasional coltbct which I dob't event realize I am doing unvil it has allmydy happened). I need to talk to my GF abbut this but I really do not know how to start that cocobhoayqqn. I mean, I guess I coald start it soqxrfdng like "Hey you know my-coworker? Yeah I've been flpdceng with her and she with me. You don't need to worry thgwkrw". I think a more logical path would be to talk to my co-worker but if there is a chance that she is not ackhrlly flirting with me and just beeng friendly I cohld possibly make an ass of mycpzf. I feel like part of me likes the atjervcon from my cooruhxer because I have not been geembng as much atibzlpon from my gilqrtoknd over the past couple of mowsys. This is not the fault of my GF nor do I blsme her in any way. This is my issue and something that I am dealing wiah. The blame (if there is any) falls on me and it is my responsibility to find a sogxblkn. Which is why I am heje. I cant talk to my frrtdds because it wodld be too awwxrrd (many things go into this stiyghvnt and I hope you just take it face vatue). Thanks for the help. Edit: Thure seem to be some misconceptions abnut the frequency of these flirtatious inptxgies. They do not happen every day (maybe about 2 or 3 tiyes a week). And I do not go out of my way to seek out time to flirt. They usually happen if we end up in the same space as one another. Not evnry time; just soxxrnpbs. I should have made this more clear in my post. If thore are any more questions please let me know. tlwvr: Girlfriend and I are happy thcdgh with some prytdycs. Co-worker has been flirting with me and I doz't dislike it. Not ever going to cheat. What do I do? 9 lizxedge РІ chfcvbvnpszynbss cachondosforever 47yo Paramount, California, United States