I’ve noticed from being around men and some women in the industry that a large percent of the time their significant other is someone who has no connection to that scene at all. I wonder is it because they don’t want their women/men to know what it is that they do when they’re not around? For instance, I know one groupie who has slept with every single man in a crew of signed artists in the industry. Is the kind of thing that goes on silently in the workplace? David Letterman recently admitted to having affairs with several staff members. Steve Phillips of ESPN was recently fired for having an affair with a production assistant at the network.

Maybe I’m just cynical, perhaps it’s because after a long day on the job when you get home you want to sit across the dinner table from someone who can listen objectively and distract your mind from your career. Is this why Shaq supposedly has been having an affair with the fiancee’ of Gilbert Arenas? Hmmm, unfortunately cynicism and reality seem to go hand in hand in this topic. It seems to me that there is a strong attraction to those who you work with. There’s mutual respect there for the business acumen and ambition. And damned if it isn’t very convenient. But what about the negative reasons that drive some people? Envy? Revenge? Will you have to wonder about your boo competing with you for that big account? Or even worse getting a groupie pregnant and being involved with baby mama drama from a chicken head with 2 other baby daddy’s.

How do two people that make a living in the same field make it work? It doesn’t have to last forever, most relationships obviously don’t, but can it be great while it lasts. I wonder if it’s when the celebrity gets too much that the ego’s become the problem. I know of three couples that run wonderful websites and design businesses together. Then I also know a guy who says he doesn’t want to be at the same events or parties as his girl because it would be weird. I guess if we equate success to the money, cars, hoes and clothes, I suppose we’ll always want that in abundance. As conveniently as possible.