On intimacy, rupture, and what the workplace asks of us We spend more waking hours with our colleagues than with almost anyone else in our lives. We navigate conflict with them, celebrate with them, carry stress alongside them, and sometimes hold each other through genuinely hard moments. We know each other's habits, insecurities, quirks. We see each other under pressure. We notice when something's off. And yet we're expected to keep an emotional lid on it. To be regulated, p