When Your Partner Isn’t Giving You the Support You Need

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The people we love have a great influence on our professional success. But when’s the last time you and your partner checked in about each other’s priorities and needs? Jennifer Petriglieri, an expert on dual-career couples, advises one woman on how to get out of the relationship traps she and her husband have fallen into as the parents of young children, and offers practical tips for how she can have more productive conversations with her partner to realize her career ambitions.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
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0:26.3	You're listening to women at work from Harvard Business Review.
0:32.0	I'm Amy Bernstein.
0:33.4	I'm Amy Gallo.
0:34.5	If you've been listening to our show for a while or reading our newsletter,
0:37.8	you know that we regularly ask listeners and readers to tell us about the workplace challenges
0:43.1	they're facing. In this one particular email landed in our inbox recently,
0:48.8	about a dilemma that we think is very relatable and yet rarely discussed.
0:54.3	The woman who wrote that email gave us permission to read it out loud.
0:57.6	Here it goes.
0:59.2	Hello.
1:00.1	I'm not sure this has been covered before,
1:01.9	but I personally am being challenged in a way that may be an issue for others as well.
1:06.8	It's difficult to get my husband to wholeheartedly support my career and its development.
1:12.4	He's an excellent partner.
1:14.0	We make a great team, and he absolutely intends to be supportive.
1:18.4	But when I face additional demands for my job,
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