Don’t Work With Your Spouse

Posted by Relationship Expert on November 20, 2009

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Many couples meet at work and then want to get married. However, one member of the couple will normally resign and start a different job at a different place so they don’t have to be together 24/7. Having time apart and working on dissimilar projects is by and large the approach most couples take because it’s too stressful to live with someone and work with them.

Almost half of marriages result in divorce so why take the chance of working with your spouse? If things go sour it will not only affect your personal life but also your career and even your livelihood. Just look at Frank and Jamie McCourt the estranged couple that ran the Los Angeles Dodgers. Owner Frank McCourt and his wife ran the team but last month the husband fired his wife. She went to court and tried to bring a claim to get her job back but lost.

This is just one example of the problems a couple may face while sharing a house and the office. Working with each another can be particularly stressful. You are contributing additional stress besides the normal relationship because you’re also including money and your career. A second couple that worked together has been divorced and remarried.

They have faced many negative experiences. They have had supervisors that tried to make them rival against each other, along with lots of bad rumors spread about them, and even faced accusations of favoritism. They even have arguments about friends at work for the reason that one spouse doesn’t like some of the friends of the husband and vice versa.

Although there are lots of challenges, the couple has learned to work together but is still challenged with everyday issues at work and home. Another problem is that it’s dangerous to have both spouses working for the same company. With this unsteady economy a company may face difficulty and be forced to dismiss workers. If that happens, one or both of you might be out of a job.

Although scores of marriages have ended in divorce when spouses worked together many have also worked. One couple revealed how to successfully work together with your spouse. Each spouse should have responsibility over different factors. There doesn’t need to be a power struggle so don’t have one partner in an executive position over the other.

By having individual assignments and responsibilities they can still work together and love each other. Another recommendation is to leave work at the office. It can be easy to talk about work out of the office but you have to keep the relationship going and the romance thriving so forget about work.

The moral of the story is that working together can be difficult on your relationship and may put so much pressure that you end up divorcing. Yet, many couples successfully work together. You will never know if you can work with your spouse until you try it. But if you have a secure job that you enjoy don’t quit it in order to work with your spouse. For the reason that if you go to work together and it fails you may have a hard time locating another job, so it will affect your finances and your relationship.

Diane Johnson earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Utah. She likes to write about the news, politics, college degrees, Distance Learning, and the college experience.

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