When was the last time you had a 1:1 with your spouse? Not a date night, but a marriage check in on your challenges and improvement areas. Probably not as often as you have with your boss.
“People would never not check in on the job. There are staff meetings all the time, you discuss challenges and clear them up,” psychotherapist Linda Bloom, who has been helping couples work on their marriages for over 50 years at Bloomwork, tells Fortune. “People have the romantic notion that just because they married each other and love each other, everything’s supposed to just flow from that. That’s wrong—you’ve got to have a structure that supports the well-being of your marriage, just like you have the structure that supports the well-being of your career development.”
