MOMENT | The SECRET to thriving as a dual-career couple with professor Jennifer Petriglieri
Motherkind
Zoe Blaskey
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You talk about this psychological contracting, which sounds like that's what that was. |
| 0:09.2 | You sort of did that inadvertently, didn't you? |
| 0:11.6 | You talked about it on, were you on honeymoon and you sort of sat down. |
| 0:14.2 | We were on our third date. |
| 0:15.4 | Third date. |
| 0:16.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.0 | And you sat down and wrote what was important to you. |
| 0:19.6 | And I think, you know, what I find in my research is every single couple has a psychological |
| 0:23.7 | contract. Every couple has a deal. Most couples just don't discuss it, right? They just fall into it. |
| 0:29.8 | And the couples that do really well are those that discuss like what is the deal between us. |
| 0:35.1 | Tell me what that looks like. How does someone do that? So it's really about |
| 0:38.8 | talking about things in three areas. So one is what really matters to us. So what are the things |
| 0:45.9 | we're going to pursue above everything else? And that might be like a specific career goal, |
| 0:49.9 | one or the other of you have. It might be how can we work enough that we achieve our goals, |
| 0:56.2 | but not enough so we have enough time for these things outside of work. It might be something |
| 1:00.2 | about, right, what kind of couple do we want to be? You know, we want to be a couple who's really |
| 1:04.1 | embedded in our community. Having those principles, those kind of yardsticks laid down is really |
| 1:09.8 | important because this is what we measure |
| 1:11.0 | our life by. These are the things that, you know, if you're not careful, you wake up five years later |
| 1:15.1 | and you're like, this isn't where I wanted to be. You hear it all the time, don't you? You just, |
| 1:18.8 | you just sleepwalk. It's so easy to sleepwalk through life because it's so busy. |
| 1:24.0 | And particularly at that period where we have younger children. Yeah. From kind of first |
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