Welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You from HouseofX.com.

Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Kristen and I'm Caroline and this is part three

of our Stuff Mom Never Told you plus lean-in series and today we are kind of stepping

outside of the workplace to look at life surrounding and intertwining work and debunking

this idea of work life balance.

Yeah, Sandberg focuses a lot in her book on just the fact that there really is no such

thing.

There really is in this day and age with our smart phones and whatnot.

There really is kind of a blurred line now between our personal lives and our work lives

and we kind of shouldn't be expected and maybe can't be expected to be two completely

separate people.

Yeah, and there's this idea that I hadn't thought about before, before I read lean-in that

really framing it as a work life balance and trying to achieve some perfect balance

between the two often as an exercise and futility that we may be wasting a lot of energy

on instead of just embracing the fact that the two collide and they're going to collide

and intersect all of the time and the chapters that we're focusing on for this discussion

come from chapter eight making your partner a real partner in chapter nine which is the

myth of doing it all.

So just to kick things off, we are working a bunch, especially if you are married with

kids for instance in 2009, married middle-income parents worked eight and a half more hours

per week compared to parents in 1979.

But you're still expected to go home and do all of the things that parents did in 1979.

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