Five Tips for Successfully Working with Your Husband

When you work with your spouse, you nearly spend most of the time together at both; work and home. This can be either a blessing or a curse. In order to make your marriage work and have a stress-free relationship, here are five tips for successfully working with your husband:

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1. Don’t mix work and home

Work and home are completely two different things. After a long tiring working day, try to avoid talking about your work issues together. It will just make things uncomfortable and he might get a bit annoyed with you. If for example you had an issue with your husband concerning a task at work, don’t let it carry over to your house. Forget about it and don’t mix the two.

2. Maintain a professional relationship

If you and your husband are coworkers, try to avoid the big mistake every couple does. During work, you might communicate together in a more casual way as you tend to forget about some professional standards. Avoid at all costs showing some lovey-dovey moments in front of your other coworkers. Public display of affection is a HUGE no no in this case! The rules are the same for you as anyone else.

3. Keep some space

Try to maintain a little bit of a distance when it comes to making decisions at work. A sense of individuality is rather crucial in your everyday life at the office together. Being too dependant on each other might just push you to get on each others nerves. 

4. Set ground rules

Agreeing on some rules such as separating workspaces or not discussing your personal issues during working hours is extremely important. Both of you shall also know that work decisions shouldn't affect your husband-wife relationship. Work conflict has nothing to do with you two.  

5. Don’t take things personal 

It may happen that you become your husband’s boss or vice versa. You should both know that any decisions taken at work should be respected and appreciated. In other words, if you happened to become his boss and you fought with him the other night over not putting down the toilet seat, then don't let your pissed-off attitude be the reason behind sending him a warning just because he arrived one minute late to the office.  

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