Author: jennifer

  If you’ve been married for more than a year… …Or in a committed relationship for more than a year I’d wager you’ve been in an argument or tense discussion with your partner surrounding one of the BIG 5: MONEY, KIDS, SEX, COMMUNICATION or your RELATIONSHIP… A super successful career-focused woman and her business owning husband, we will call them Susan and Jake, recently shared their story with us. My guess is their story will ring true with you… Susan and Jake shared they’d spent years arguing over finances and recently had one of the biggest blow-ups they could recall- lasting for hours in the early morning and then moving into days of silence between them as they could bear being in the same room for days after…almost an entire week out of their lives, nearly wasting 168 hours. The whole argument ensued when Jake complained that Susan spent too much money after she brought home a new handbag, and Susan responded that Jake was too controlling and judgemental… The disagreement spun out of control from there. Both of them shared that for days after and even now, weeks later, an all-consuming feeling of desperation had seeped into every aspect of their lives. For Jake this was impacting productivity and how he ran his business every day as he admitted to irritably reacting to employees, unable to manage the...