Stephanie Losee, author of Office Mate: Your Employee Handbook for Romance on the Job, talks about how to handle an office romance. Discretion is key at first (to avoid gossip) and it is important that you are serious about each other if you plan to share your relationship with your coworkers. By the time you tell them they will probably already know. Losee notes that Michelle Obama and Barack Obama met in the workplace. Take a look: