EP139 How to keep teaching from ruining your marriage
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Truth for Teachers, we're talking about how to keep teaching from ruining your marriage (or any relationship you have with a significant other).
I can't tell you how many emails I've gotten over the years from teachers telling me that teaching is ruining their marriage. I've heard of husbands giving their wives ultimatums: It's either teaching or me. And I've also heard from many 40HTW club members over the years that they have used strategies from the club to reduce their workload, which has ultimately helped them strengthen their marriage and have more time to spend with their partners.
This episode will use a slightly different format, as I've asked club members to share some of the things that they are doing to preserve their marriage and keep teaching from coming in between themselves and their partners.
Join me today as I'll be sharing some of the advice that they've written, and also play a couple audio clips so you can hear things in their own words.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 139 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.4 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the |
| 0:11.8 | minds and hearts of educators and get you |
| 0:14.0 | energized for the week ahead. Today I'm sharing six tips from teachers on how to |
| 0:19.0 | keep your job from ruining your marriage. Visit truth for Teachers.com to get the transcript and to share your thoughts and your advice as well in the comments. |
| 0:30.0 | This episode is brought to you by Brains On, which is an award-winning |
| 0:34.3 | podcast from American public media. It's dedicated to inspiring kids' |
| 0:38.3 | natural curiosity about the world. The Brainson podcast has over a hundred episodes covering real science topics, including everything |
| 0:46.2 | from why people have allergies to how electricity works. |
| 0:50.3 | And now Brainson is offering free standards-based curriculum and activities for teachers that go with each one of their podcast episodes. |
| 0:58.0 | You can learn more and download their free teacher resources at Brainson.org. |
| 1:03.0 | So we're talking about marriage here today. |
| 1:09.2 | And I'm going to just use that term marriage in the interest of being succinct, but what we're talking about really is any sort of long-term partnership, any relationship that you have with a significant other, because those relationships are going to be impacted by your job and your workload. |
| 1:24.8 | And I want to talk with you about how to handle that. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm going to do a whole separate episode in the spring about mom guilt and how teaching could |
| 1:31.5 | impact your family life if you're a mom or a dad. |
| 1:34.3 | But your relationship with a spouse or a partner has its own unique challenges and I think they |
| 1:39.2 | are worth addressing all on their own. |
| 1:41.6 | If you have kids, your spouse might already be feeling like the |
| 1:44.3 | kids needs come before his or hers. So all your time and energy is going to your |
| 1:48.5 | work and to your children with nothing given left to this partner that you're |
| 1:52.3 | committed to for life. So I think that |
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