One more note...

I read recently an example of a woman who was intelligent, good-looking, etc, etc. But she wound up in dysfunctional after dysfunctional relationship. Eventually, after a particularly abusive one, she started taking group therapy. At the first session, tears in her eyes, she desperately asked what she could do to "meet the right guy."

The therapist asked her "What do you want to do?"

The question caught the woman off-guard, and eventually she said that she liked to cook, and the therapist suggested that she take a cooking class. But, the woman wanted to know, how would she meet a man at a cooking class?

The point, of course, is that when it comes to finding happiness, people have to stop looking outside of themselves. They have to do what comes naturally to them, and simply enjoy life as it comes. I think this is what fuels the stereotype that dating coworkers is a bad idea. The fact of the matter is that the odds are against you having anything useful in common with a coworker because the starting common ground is work! Few people like their jobs enough that it would be a hobby for them even if it weren't a job; so really, the only thing two people who meet at work are nearly-gauranteed to have in common is that they don't like their work! On the flip side, when you meet someone whilst you're out doing something you enjoy, then you at least have the foundation for something workable because then there's at least one thing in common that you both do in your fun-loving, easy-going, down-time.