Working with Your Partner
In this age of entrepreneurial opportunities and Internet-fueled cottage industries, it’s not all that odd for one to be in business with a significant other. It’s a richly rewarding scenario. The two of you get to spend lots of time together every day. You are equal partners in your family’s economic adventures. You see each other in commerce roles, which are very different from traditional family and relationship roles.
Of course, the same strengths inherent in this model can be perceived as dangerous weaknesses. In the heat of business battle, you may not like what you see in your partner’s behavior. Perhaps you and your partner become increasingly competitive, even to the point where you begin to feel (and act on) genuine irritation for each other. Workplace tension in a relationship quickly manifests at home, breaking many families and partner bonds to pieces. One must be present and ever vigilant against going to sleep where your conduct towards your workplace and life partner are concerned. Sometimes, you will need to be imaginative to maintain balance and stoke the fires of love.
Writing Prompt
You and your partner work together in a business. For this exercise, write short poems to each other that flirt. Write them as if you don’t know each other very well but are really attracted to each other. Write several of these poems, growing bolder, more suggestive. Make a special dinner with each other, or go out to a restaurant you both love. Odds are you will talk a lot about the poems you wrote to each other. And after that? Well, you may want to write about that, too.