Husband-&-Wife Share Secrets To Building Thriving Biz
In today’s society, many husbands and wives are also married to their careers, which can make it difficult to maintain a healthy and happy marriage. Other married couples, like Luke and Maisie Knowles, combine work life and home life as husband-and-wife entrepreneurs.
The co-founders of FreeShipping.org, a one-stop destination for consumers to find online retailers that offer free shipping deals, the Knowles have what they call an added challenge and benefit that most husband-and-wife entrepreneurs don’t share. They work from a home office – side by side – just a few feet away from each other. And they have an infant daughter, Isabelle.
Concocting the ideal recipe to combine a thriving business and a successful marriage is not easy, Luke and Maisie agree, especially when you work together at home, but it can be done with understanding.
“As a married couple, when you move from conventional office jobs to working together in your own business, you go from not having much time together to being around each other most of the day everyday,” Luke said. “It can be a challenge to define life as husband and wife, and life as business partners, because it’s hard to separate the two. Still, we would rather work together in our own business than go our separate ways in the morning working for someone else.”
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Boris on August 26th, 2008 12:08 pm
What a better way to combat isolation and anger in a relationship brought on by entrepreneurship, than by running a business together? Great article.
cassy on August 26th, 2008 6:32 pm
The key word is Understanding… so no doubt that they were successful husband and wife business partners.
Tom At The Home Business Archive on August 27th, 2008 11:44 am
Mixing family with business does not always become a disaster.In the “real world” it can in some situations be a good idea to have family members to help you when you run your business and there are some other great benefits like family tradition, where your business goes on from generation to generation.
craig and cristen on December 1st, 2008 4:58 am
hi. my partner and i are looking at different franchises available as at the moment we hardly get to see each other as i am working casual and craig has been on arvo shift for 5 years now. we would appreciate any information you could provide. thanks
Laurie Bixler on November 9th, 2009 5:41 pm
I don’t know any other way really to go through life anymore, because my husband and I work together in our business for almost 20 years now. To comment to Craig and Cristen, we started in business as franchisees. The stress is enormous of getting along, and trying to make money, and communicating, and it is not for everyone. You MUST grow with the biz and the relationship and improve communication skills too. And at least one of you must be flexible. As hard at it is, I think working with your husband is better than going off separate ways. Good article.
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