Forbes stirred the pot a bit this week with dueling articles on careers and marriage, a topic I’ve debated myself on occasion. In summary, Michael Noer argues that marriages in which a woman continues her career lead to more unhappiness an divorce, citing various studies. In the counterpoint, Elizabeth Corcoran rebuts that slacker husbands are equally to blame and that when both people put in the effort, a dual-career marriage does work.
I definitely agree with the latter; you get out of any relationship what you and your partner put into it. In geeky math terms, it’s the union of the effort that counts; both have to give for it to be successful. In a country with a 50% divorce rate and no shortage of disastrous relationship headlines and study results, it’s definitely a challenge to balance a career and a relationship, but far from impossible.
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