Suppose they hurt you, or betray you, or get killed on you. Love and Sex are not expressly forbidden by the technocracy. Like say featherbedding, Where the Syndicate mage who is funding the project manages to pry a chunk of cash loose from Disbursements and then pockets a good bit of it before turning it over to the team. Like say Nepotism, favoritism,or even discrimination, any practice of management that puts incompetent people over others with the same or more merit. Like Credit stealing, which happens in every branch of the technocracy and often leads to aggression in workplace and even sabotage.
Pressure Keeping reality safe is full time job and requires eternal vigilance and attention to duty.
There is only one problem with this. Humans aren't built for eternal vigilance and attention to duty. The Technocracy as a whole is a pressure cooker and worse, refuses to admit that it's own ethic is what is killing it. Alcoholism and Sadomasochism runs rampant in all strata of the N.W.O and the Syndicate. Void engineers sometimes turn to suicide as a way out the boredom, Progenitors seem to have less problems with this but even they are not immune.