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Couples That Work
This chapter tells the stories of three couples that work; that is, couples whose members resolved to share a life and two careers, couples that never settled for the idea that one could either truly love one’s work or another person, and couples that did not take their relationship for granted, and did the work it takes to thrive in love and work, together, over a lifetime. By this point, you will have realized that the “work” we are concerned with in this book is not just the work that couples put into their careers. It is the work they put into each other to make it through the struggles and transitions I have described.
The three couples in this chapter, when I talked to them, were enjoying a period of renewal in the ...
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