Ouch, this reads really realistically, far more realistically than 80% of these comments.

Indeed I got hooked in a matter of months and am already her proponent within the company. I have heard myself promote her ideas or defend her over the last week. I will have to check on her underlings myself. Even though I think backing off is the smartest idea, we still work together.

I know the shark-like women you mention, but this woman is exceedingly subtle. There isn't a shred of phoniness in any of these discussions, nothing obvious. Every other person in our Sales team just clicks into sales talk and even when it's good, I see through it. This time I didn't. But of course at some point everyone runs into someone at the absolute top of their game and she is making this look good.

I appreciate the confirmation about the flirting and the innuendo. I really appreciate it. I think it's much too easy on this subreddit for the guy to get clobbered and downvoted, but I really did come here out of honest confusion. Everyone likes to think of themselves as attractive, intelligent, or otherwise "Special." I've known men who got a divorce in their 50s and married trophy wives 20 years their junior, it's by no means unheard of. It's just that I don't see myself as that kind of person, but then this happened to me.