{"id":8984,"date":"2017-11-16T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauradoyle1.wpengine.com\/?p=8984"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:34:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:34:29","slug":"working-with-your-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/working-with-your-spouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with Your Spouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you work with your spouse, it can be too much togetherness. Plus, if you don’t see things the same way, it often creates tension both at work and at home.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no pressure relief when the work conversation goes on through dinner. And no escaping the problems at home when you leave for work either.<\/p>\n

This can stress your marriage big time–or it can be a great way to keep more money in the family and spend more time with the person you chose as your partner in life.<\/p>\n

Having experienced it both ways, I\u2019m grateful to know what makes all the difference.<\/p>\n

Here are 3 secrets to succeeding while working with your spouse.<\/p>\n

My husband John and I are both entrepreneurs who work from home.<\/p>\n

In the early days, I wanted to manage my husband like an employee by telling him which projects to prioritize and how to do them.<\/p>\n

Not that I was very qualified to do this, mind you, unless you count getting fired from my job.<\/p>\n

I was then going to help him count all the money after he did what I told him to, but that never happened.<\/p>\n

He resisted my instructions mightily, and our business ventures floundered. Our personal finances were in chaos.<\/p>\n

My marriage was in trouble too, for the same reason. I had become a porcupine wife he mostly avoided.<\/p>\n

I thought the problems were because he was so uncooperative–never that I was overbearing. I believed I was smarter than him so it only made sense for me to \u201chelp\u201d him.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know that \u201chelpful\u201d in wife language is \u201ccritical\u201d in husband language or that fear lurked beneath my urge to control the smart man I\u2019d married.<\/p>

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I had no idea I could choose my faith over my fear in those moments, but now that I have a world-famous system for doing just that, I see the direct connection between the steps that revitalized my failing marriage<\/a> and the dramatic improvement in our bottom line.<\/p>\n

Here are the life-changing things I did that helped us both succeed:<\/p>\n

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