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Dear Breakup Girl,

I am such an idiot. No that's not the question. I a 50-year-old business owner, sleeping with a 30-year-old guy who works for me. So what's the problem? Well, he likes to spend weekends with ex-girlfriends. And makes me feel awful.

So how is this different anybody's boyfriend sleeping around? Well for one thing, he spends every day with me in the office. For another, he's charming, attentive and I often think I'm in love with him.

Right now, it's Sunday on one of those hellish weekends. And more than anything, I want to stop feeling like this.

I know I'm a big girl. I should be able to figure this out for myself. But right now, the best I've been able to do is tell him I don't want to see him or talk to him, except about business. I've set him an office at home, and I want him to stay there.

Any other suggestions short of firing him, which he doesn't really deserve, except being fired from my personal life.

-- Kat

Dear Kat,

Actually, it seems to me that you have been figuring this out: the home office exile sounds pretty practical to me. How fortunate that you had the presence of mind and the flexibility to do that. Now use them to find something else to do on weekends.

Love,
Breakup Girl

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