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Considering that 1/3 of all relationships met at work, your suggestion sounds pretty ridiculous.

That is mind-boggingly ridiculous: the concept that a company would have any sort of opinion on who I have sex with.

US work culture sometimes feels so incredibly alien when seen from the outside.

It's alien when you're on the inside too.

We had a married couple working at the company, both engineers and neither reporting to the other. The husband was promoted to a managerial position where his wife would now become a report, not direct, but still in his chain-of-command. That is against company policy so they were given some options to resolve this. The wife ended up with a lateral transfer into another division.

Awhile back one of my co-workers got involved with a contractor. Apparently the relationship went "bad" at some point and one of the parties decided to get HR involved. Both were fired immediately.

But do not forget to mention that "we are like family here".