SAM'S CENTS
Partner Ping Pong
After I gave a talk at Evite this week, a woman approached me and said that she has two kids and a busy job and is overwhelmed. "Do you and your husband really split everything on the home front?" she asked incredulously. I said "yes" but explained that it is constantly fluid and ever changing and I shared this story...
I have a big deadline on a project and I was scheduled to chaperone an all day Kindergarten school field trip today. I asked my husband to take it on so I could work, and he said he couldn't swing it. I didn't want to disappoint my son, so my husband and I agreed that I will go on the field trip and then I will come back and work until 10pm while he handles dinner and bedtime. That was our compromise, and that is how we do it!
It is a constant dialogue, lots of negotiation and is wonderfully imperfect, but it all shakes out in the end.
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