Has other people influenced a relationship in your past or present?

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Okay, here is the deal, I'm going to share a bit of my past with you and although I don't allow other people to influence my present relationships now, I do recognize that other people play a deep role in your present relationships now. As a young adult teenager 18, I was employed at a place that stayed open 24 hours. I had a pretty cool working relationship with one of my female managers at that time. So much of a cool relationship, she introduced me to a friend of hers that I eventually had a "FREE" standing intimate relationship with. Well the co-workers at my job, always thought that me and this female manager were already in a intimate relationship with one another at which we both denied, since it was not true. We were often referred too as an old married couple. One day, I was given a ride home, by this manager, who had to stop by her home first. I didn't think nothing of it, until I kissed her and then the question came up between us, do we allow it to go any further or squash it before we both regret it later. Of course, we were alone in her apartment, and so we did what our flesh wanted to do. Well later our working relationship was affected as well as the relationship I had with the previous friend. Later that manager was let go, not because of our relationship, but because of poor management skills and several complaints by other co-workers. Do you think our relationship would have ever started if someone else had not spoke it into existence? Do you think that it had something to do with the relationship I had developed with her friend that had something to do with this turn of events? Do you think I was taken advantage of as a young teenager, mind you this manager was at least a decade older than I was? What are your view points? Care to share any of your past experiences with the mylot community? This discussion is only for the brave and courageous at heart in my personal opinion. So, now in my relationship with my wife, I don't allow others to add input as to what we should or should not do. The reason why is because we have to live with the consciences of our choices (good or bad). And our relationship is one that will be forever (as we maintain a consistent agreement with one another). So although we may seek the expertise of individual counsel, in the end we make the decision together whether we go this way or that as we are one. What say you?