casestudy BRINGING BACK THE NW & SW SECTORS
CREATES NEW TOGETHERNESS
IN THIS MARRIAGE
By HANNI LIM
company. I met her through one of the projects I had initiated. Faye was assigned as my project manager and we got along super well from the word Go! Faye and I became great offi ce friends as we spent a great deal of time together. Our coff ee breaks became lunches. In time, we were visiting each other’s homes for barbeques and children’s parties.
A I met her two children, Gracey
(11 years) and Jason (9 years) but I could not help noticing that Faye’s husband Andy was never around when we came over, even for Jason or Gracey’s birthdays. I knew he was still in her life as she talked about him occasionally. T ere were photographs
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bout 15 years ago while still living in New Zealand, I knew a lady named Faye who worked with me in the same
of him around the house, but never having met Andy, I wondered if something was not altogether right, in their marriage. Being the busy body that I am, I asked her about Andy. Faye explained that Andy worked as a ship mechanical engineer for one of Singapore’s largest shipping companies. He was often away travelling, usually for many weeks at a time. T is had been their life for the past fi ve years and although she was not happy that he was rarely around, she had come to accept the fact that Andy was away for most of the birthdays, school concerts and major events of their children’s lives. “T e money he makes pays the bills, and I get lots of personal time to myself…” she said with small smile.
What surprised me was how
“matter of fact” she was about it all. She did not sound upset or unhappy – just indiff erent and almost happy that Andy was away for long periods of time. T en one Friday, over one of our evening drinks after work, (and she’d had quite a few tequila shots by then) she let out a little secret quite by accident -“My kids are at their granny’s tonight. I’m so looking forward to spending the night at Rick’s place,” she said. “Rick? Who’s Rick?” I asked, and
Faye suddenly had a huge look of embarrassment on her face! She then said, “Rick is an old family friend who’s visiting and I thought we’d catch up. We are very old friends, lots to talk about.” She then changed the subject and avoided mentioning anything about Rick again.
I suspected that Faye could be having an aff air outside her marriage. But it was not till the following week that I realized that the “Rick” that Faye had let slip through her lips was not an “old friend”. It was actually Rick Patterson who was the married Executive General Manager of the National Sales department upstairs! OMG, what a scandal! It made perfect sense of course.
Faye had been the project manager in his project for the past three years… and the two would have spent plenty of time together. In fact, I recall my boss telling me that Faye and Rick were very close at work. He never asks for anyone except Faye to spearhead any of his initiatives! T at week, as I walked through our basement car park (short cut to the other side of the street), I caught a glimpse of Faye and Rick having a cigarette together. T ey were standing so close to each other… whispering, laughing and nudging one another. He would touch her shoulder here and arm there… I was convinced the two of them had something more than a professional relationship going on. I decided not to confront Faye as
I knew it would change our working relationship. More importantly, our company was very conservative and the discovery of a scandalous offi ce romance at executive level would have dire consequences for both their careers. It was not a light matter, so I told myself to let it go. T e next time I visited Faye’s home,
I started to pay attention to the feng shui of her house. I realized instantly why things had got to where they were then.
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