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Couples That Work|Petriglieri, Jennifer

Couples That Work : How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work

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Overview

Finding fulfillment in both love and work isn't easy—but it's possible.



The majority of couples today are dual-career couples. As anyone who's part of such a relationship knows, this presents big challenges: trying to raise kids and achieve career goals while caring for and supporting your partner can seem impossible. Yet most advice for dual-career couples fails, framing the challenges as a zero-sum game in which one partner's gain is the other's loss and solutions feel like sacrifices or unsatisfactory trade-offs.



This book is different. In Couples That Work, INSEAD professor Jennifer Petriglieri rejects conventional, one-size-fits-all solutions and instead focuses on how dual-career couples can tackle and resolve the challenges they face throughout their lives—together. She identifies three key phases of exploration and personal growth in every couple's work-life journey, showing how partners must navigate these together to strengthen their bond.



Filled with vivid real-life stories, keen insights, and engaging exercises, Couples That Work will help couples develop their own unique answers to that most pressing question: How can we successfully combine love and work?

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781469076157
  • Publisher: Ascent Audio
  • Publish Date: Dec 2019
  • Author: Jennifer Petriglieri
  • Narrator: Jennifer Petriglieri
  • Duration: 06:27:56

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