Working Together. Loving Together.
I work with many relationships where a couple run a business together, or work together. They come from all sorts of backgrounds including people in creative industries, healthcare, hospitality, retail and professional services. Some have built businesses from scratch, others have inherited family businesses, and others have gradually found themselves working side by side as opportunities arose. Despite the wide range of different industries, I hear remarkably similar stories and the work we do covers several issues that typically arise in couples who work together. These are not necessarily business problems so much as relationship problems unfolding in the context of work. Together all the time and yet lonelier than ever Many couples describe missing one another, even though they spend almost all of their time together. At first this can sound rather odd. How can you miss somebody you see every day? You can share an office, drive to work together, collect the ...