For how many times I would have to tell you that it is only a business contact?

In Pakistan, the thinking of most of the educated and extremely professional people is that if a female gives her number or asks for their number, there might have a chance of friendship beyond professional relationship. I am not saying that all men think same but most of them do.

For example, you meet a resourceful person and ask his contact information thinking that he may help you someday. He would also be delighted to exchange contact numbers thinking in a same way. Both of you keep in contact and help each other when it is needed. Occasionally, you invite each other for lunch or dinner. How much it seems easy naa when both of you have same gender. But when there is a gender difference, the whole situation turns to be ‘some thing’ else. I am not saying that the situation is same in all gender-difference-professional-relationship.

Here, I am asking why men think that the women asking for their numbers or contacting them later for some help are interested in them ACTUALLY? WHY? Why dont people change their thinking? Why men are so much obsessed in building CLOSEST and PERSONAL relationship? Why it can’t be limited to their work only? Why do they want to extend it to their personal lives also? A Big WHY!

There is a malign margin between a personal contact and a business contact. And I can’t tell you how much it is difficult to keep this difference. The exchange of contact numbers is a very common thing. Not at all a problem if both of you belong to a same gender. But we working ladies have to remain very cautious in this exchange. You of course cannot judge anyone’s nature in first or second meeting. Hence it is your contact number in their cells that determine how long your professional cooperation would last.

Some people seem very decent while asking contact numbers but their decency goes off when your email address or number come into their cells. Some people prove to be so much chipko that they cling like lizard to wall.

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