This is Help Launton, the show that tackles all the big work questions you cannot ask anyone else.

I'm Jason Pfeiffer, Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, and I'm New York Time Specialing

author and money expert, Nicole Lapin.

The helpline is open.

For some people, work is their passion.

It is core to their identity.

For others, work is just a thing that they do to earn money that they can spend on the

thing that they really care about.

And I'm not here to say that one is right and one is wrong to each their own, but what

happens when those two kind of people date?

Well, that's where it can get complicated.

And we just heard from a help wanted listener who is facing exactly that.

My boyfriend is much less ambitious than I am.

He gets more pleasure in meaning from the things he does outside of work, but I'm more

less the opposite.

It's starting to affect our relationship, because I think he's starting to resent my

working late, and I'm starting to resent the fact that he's resenting that I'm working

late.

Is this a deal breaker?

That is such a good question.

Also, that was me.

Well, Rolls reverse, because I was the boyfriend obsessed with work, and my girlfriend was not.

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