4. If You Can’t Find a Spouse Who Supports Your Career, Stay Single

“I don’t want to rake up a bunch of bullshit for no profit.”

—Shiv Roy to Tom Wambsgans, Season 4, episode 4

Shiv and Tom, the quintessential toxic power couple. Courtship via private jet. Conflicting career goals. Unresolved flings with exes. Shiv scheming with Tom against her brothers. Shiv scheming with her brothers against Tom. Tom scheming against Shiv with his father-in-law. All signs of a normal, healthy relationship on Succession.

It’s tough to know how many hours of couples counseling, family therapy, and dual-career coaching it would take to tidy up their marriage, but gender and generational consultant Avivah Wittenberg-Cox has some advice that Shiv and Tom ...

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