# Couples That Work

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- Book: [Couples That Work](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-petriglieri/couples-that-work) ([Couples That Work.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-petriglieri/couples-that-work.md))
- Authors: [Jennifer Petriglieri](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-petriglieri)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4137-901-1
- Published: 2019-10-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Finding fulfilment in both love and work isn't easy--but it is possible. Most advice for working couples fails because it treats the challenge of balancing two careers as a zero-sum game in which one partner's gain is the other's loss. This book is different. In Couples That Work , professor Jennifer Petriglieri shifts away from the language of sacrifice and trade-offs, and focuses on how couples can tackle the challenges they will face throughout their lives--together. Petriglieri identifies three key phases of exploration and growth in every couple's work-life journey and provides tools to help couples navigate three pivotal questions together: · How can we make this work? · What do we really want? · Who are we now? Based on five-years research interviewing over a hundred couples from thirty countries, Couples That Work is filled with vivid, real-life stories. Full of engaging exercises and activities, this book will help every couple work out their own unique way to successfully combine love and work.