Dear Therapist,
Pete and I are developing some new material to help couples with
problems in one important area: when work interferes on the
homefront.
We have seen so many couples over the years who have failed to
stay close when one partner's job has intensified. Too often,
partners can not understand the demands on either the partner at
work or the partner at home. Instead of developing helpful
strategies, they begin to attack one another and belittle the
other's stresses.
We are hoping you have some experience with this challenging
problem - either in your own life, or from working with clients
who have been successful in reaching across this "great divide."
We are especially interested in knowing strategies that have
been successful with couples where one partner works late, works
long hours or travels frequently and misses significant family
events.
We have set up an answer page to make it easy for you to
respond. Please go to
http://www.couplesinstitutetraining.com/ask2/.
We appreciate your input and when we have finished, we will
conduct a free teleseminar to discuss these issues and provide
helpful strategies.
Thanks so much, Ellyn
