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When workplace culture pressures disclosure about romantic life

My coworkers always ask about my dating life and I've started making up stories because saying I'm not interested in dating makes them treat me like I'm either lying or pitiable.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional environments that assume universal romantic engagement force aromantic individuals to choose between exhausting visibility work and deceptive performance.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Asexual and aromantic identity?”

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