I'm so love, even though you know it's not really love. Infatuation is half the reason I go to the bar at all. If you're going to be drunk enough to flirt with someone you have to work with tomorrow, you damn well better be sure you won't regret it when you're sober. Moving from colleagues and friends to anything more is always risky business, but if you understand that risk and are willing to take it, then go ahead. If you're friends with both parties in a couple, and you happen to be there when that couple starts to crash and burn, it's best to back up and stay out of it.
Emotions run high when heated words explode in flung cocktails, snappy insults, and bitch-slaps.
Chances are, no matter how the fight ends, you'll be able to be friends with both of them if you aren't seen to be taking sides. Caring, Communication, and Compromise. You've got to care about what the other person is thinking and feeling, you have to be able to communicate your feelings as well as letting the other person communicate theirs, and you've got to be willing to compromise. If the world is going to end in some sort of Y2K Armageddon on New Year s Eve, then the one thing that truly made life worth living was developing relationships with people. Because to love another person is to come as close to the divine as possible.