This Woman Wants To Know If She’s Wrong For Not Disclosing Her Relationship Status With Her Coworkers

Coworkers can spend years around each other and still know surprisingly little about one another. That is exactly what happened in this Reddit story, when a woman’s relationship status became a workplace topic after people realized she was not married.

What should have stayed private turned awkward fast, especially after one coworker reacted badly to finding out she had not disclosed her personal life. Now her coworkers think she owes an apology, while she feels she never had to explain anything in the first place.

The whole situation gets even messier once you hear why the coworker was so upset. Read on.

Here's the story about her relationship status and what happened with the coworker.

neyeong

This person thinks she's not obligated to explain her private life at work.

Reddit flooded in with comments from people saying that she's NTA.

sashaopinion

Her personal life is literally no one's business, and her coworkers have no right to know anything about her.

HunterDangerous1366

That was the general mood in the comments.

Definitely NTA because she doesn't need to explain her personal life to anyone.

bogo0814

People are advising her to watch out for the coworker who reacted that way. Big red flags.

mynewusername10

Things got uncomfortable fast after that reaction.

It is quite strange how her coworkers expect her to apologize to C.

TheFamousHesham

Honestly, she's NTA, and she doesn't have to remove her ring just because she's widowed.

Odd-Astronaut-92

This is a huge red flag regarding someone's behavior, and she definitely should be cautious around him.

archersarrows

We couldn't have said it better.

BUTTeredWhiteBread

She does need to be careful and plan just in case C tries anything crazy.

FirebirdWriter

This whole situation is completely unprofessional for coworkers in a law firm.

CommissionAlarmed247

Again, she literally has no obligation to anyone to disclose anything.

PolitelyHostile

More commenters kept circling back to the same point.

That’s similar to the drama after Jordans ex found out about his new relationship, too.

If the coworkers were that close of friends with her, they would have known about her relationship status.

StereoOnCookingBacon

This is true, but she could have also lied about her marriage, and it still wouldn't have been their business.

attabe123

Total red flags everywhere.

starslighten

Simply put.

ucitygal

People are very concerned about her coworker C.

Somewhere_in_Canada1

She has nothing to apologize for.

IwannaBAtapdancer

Whether they assumed or not, it still isn't their right to know her personal life information.

Aethermist88

She technically might consider herself still in a relationship. She's not single; she's widowed.

marigoldilocks_

The number one comment said it best.

antonio-bolonio

This story is just full of red flags, and even the Reddit commenters agreed with that. Sometimes, it's best just to keep your personal life to yourself, but it's important to know that nobody is entitled to your personal business.

What do you think about this situation? Would you apologize?

Her coworkers may have made this way bigger than it needed to be.

Reddit wasn’t the only place boundaries mattered, see how one employee shut down a nosy coworker’s prying.