Couples That Work
Subtitle: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: La Vergne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781633697256
Subjects: Dual-career families; Work-life balance; Couples; Psychology; Work and family; Quality of life; Familles à double carrière; Conciliation travail-vie personnelle; Psychologie; Travail et familles; Qualité de la vie; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / General
Description: Finding fulfillment in both love and work isn't easy--but it's possible. The majority of couples today are dual-career couples. As anyone who's part of such a relationship knows, this presents big challenges: trying to raise kids and achieve career goals while caring for and supporting your partner can seem impossible. Yet most advice for dual-career couples fails, framing the challenges as a zero-sum game in which one partner's gain is the other's loss and solutions feel like sacrifices or unsatisfactory trade-offs. This book is different. In Couples That Work, INSEAD professor Jennifer Petriglieri rejects conventional, one-size-fits-all solutions and instead focuses on how dual-career couples can tackle and resolve the challenges they face throughout their lives--together. She identifies three key phases of exploration and personal growth in every couple's work-life journey, showing how partners must navigate these together to strengthen their bond. Each phase is crystallized with a question: - How can we make this work? The first phase focuses on the logistics of combining two busy lives and often involves the demands of young children. - What do we really want? In the second phase, couples learn to navigate their midlife crises in ways that allow each partner to continue to feel happy and fulfilled. - Who are we now? With careers winding down and kids grown up, this last phase offers new freedoms--and uncertainties. Based on a five-year research project, the book includes interviews with couples from over thirty countries--from executives to entrepreneurs and from twentysomething newlyweds to dual-career grandparents. Filled with vivid real-life stories, keen insights, and engaging exercises, Couples That Work will help couples develop their own unique answers to that most pressing question: How can we successfully combine love and work?
Table of contents: title: Intro; Copyright; Contents; Ch 1: The Three Transitions of a Dual-Career Couple; Transition One: How Can We Make This Work?; Ch 2: When the Honeymoon Ends; Ch 3: Struggling to Do It All; Ch 4: Achieving Interdependence; Summary: The First Transition; Transition Two: What Do We Really Want?; Ch 5: Hitting the Wall; Ch 6: Turmoil and Conflict; Ch 7: Transitioning to a New Path; Summary: The Second Transition; Transition Three: Who Are We Now?; Ch 8: Loss and Limits; Ch 9: Exploring Wider Horizons; Ch 10: Couples That Work; Summary: The Third Transition; Appendix: Studying Dual-Career Couples; title: NotesIndex; Acknowledgments; About the Author