When your colleague is your spouse

Top 10 tips for a personal and professional partnership

How can you bond a happy marriage with a successful business?

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•    Find a business you both are passionate about. If you are working in a business that you are doing just to make money, then build it and sell it so that you can do something together that you both love.

•    Set aside business-free time. Nothing kills romance like a financial meeting in the bedroom. Take regular breaks outside the work environment to relax and have fun together.

•    Communicate. Working together requires that you are honest and forthcoming.

•    Discover individual strengths and weaknesses. This helps define business roles and allows you to work independently.

•    Remain objective. Try to avoid double standards and hold each other to the same level of accountability you would apply with any other co-worker.

•    Clear the air. Trying to “keep the peace” can lead to bigger problems in the long term.

•    A good argument is sometimes the best remedy.

•    Don’t make it a competition. You each have areas of expertise.

•    Don’t fight in public. Public tiffs are unprofessional and can alienate your team.

•    Have separate interests outside work, either individually or together.

•    Keep things in perspective.Your relationship with your spouse is more important than a business decision.