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Couples That Work

How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work

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Couples That Work

Written by: Jennifer Petriglieri
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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?

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Parenting while maintaining dual careers has been quite challenging for my partner and I. This book came to our life at the right time and has already helped us trust and support each other more as we navigate our second transition. My partner has loved doing the exercises suggested in the book and I truly feel they’ve brought us closer together.

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I plan to change the way I run my entire relationship after reading this book. It should be mandatory reading in schools.

This book taught me several new things, in every chapter.

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