Could he be interested? Colleague

[Sacredwasps]

I like someone at work who's 2 years younger than me.
We're in different departments, and I usually see him once or twice a week. We have so much in common, he's one of the few people I feel like I could just talk to non stop.
We talk when we see each other in the office and occasionally on work chat, the chat is jokey and very mild teasing.
It's my birthday coming up so I mentioned I'd be going out with a few people if he wanted to come. He said it sounded really fun, and he'd be up for it.
Then the next time I saw him he asked when my birthday was.
He said to a mutual colleague I'm really nice and 'sweet' and we talk a lot.
He told me he likes talking to me.
It's hard to say, it could just be entirely friendly on his part. I felt him looking at me a certain way, but that could be all in my head or just meaningless.

Loads of people meet their partner at work.

You need to keep it off work system though - emailing or IM aren't the place for flirting.

Also don't do it if you are a highly emotional person who can't sit on their feelings at work if it all goes wrong! You need to know you can just ignore him/remain professional if it doesn't work out.

You have the perfect excuse to swap personal numbers now. We are going to be in X on Saturday for my birthday. Hope you can join us - my personal number is X if you can't find us in the bar etc.

I met my partner at work (he’s my boss 🤦‍♀️) was a risk but it’s working so far and we can’t see ourselves without each other

Ha ha! Dated at work - silver wedding incoming! 😂

Nothing wrong with dating at work - it doesn’t always end bad !

I had a short term fling with someone I worked with . In all honesty it was a sexual thing - it was never going to go anywhere , we never really said that to each other but it was a given really . It was fun , exciting at work because it was a bit secret ( did not stay secret for long and then became gossip ! ) and then when it fizzled out , it didn’t affect anything ! We had a month or so where it was a little awkward - more than anything because others knew what had happened and knew that it had ended - then we both started seing other people and a work event was coming up and I felt awkward as I later found out he did too as we both wanted to bring our new partners .. we then started chatting one day and he asked if I was taking a plus one and I said yes and then he said he was too and you could feel the tension disappear and we started chatting again like we had before - we both admitted we had felt a little awkward , had a little chat about how things ended and we kind of missed being friends at work. We both said that it was fun at the time and neither of us regretted it but that we were both happy that we had ended as we were both so happy with our new partners . From that point we were back to being great workmates and chatting and joking like we used to ( only thing different was that we never flirted any more ! ) we both went on to marry the people we had met after and have children with them and it was never awkward or messy again !

Previous to that I had a relationship and a child with another work colleague - different work place - and it was never awkward at all ( except for childcare 🤣)

If you both like each other - go for it! Just maybe have that chat about what might happen if it doesn’t work out .

Course you lile each other. He is interested. We spend a lot of time at work so will be ourselves chatting to colleagues and spend so long there you are likely to meet someone at work. My mate married her boss 20 yrs ago.
Go for it. Life is too short!

Yes he likes you