It was a nice, polite evening with pleasant socializing, and of course, a weird underlying tension that everyone knew was there but nobody said anything until my partner and I were driving home and had a good laugh.

I stayed friends with my boss for a number of years, she was often a bit “clingy” but I discouraged it gently when I could. It didn’t help that she had a boyfriend.

It really didn’t help that she often described her boyfriend as “murderous and psychopathic.”