Workbook
The Dual-Career Couple's Workbook
Two Careers, One Household, and the Negotiation Nobody Taught You
The conversation about whose career takes precedence is not a fight. It is a contract.
For the couple who are both serious about their careers and each other, and want to name explicitly how career decisions are made in their partnership.
The Name It First Experience
When both people in a household have careers they care about, the default arrangements rarely work for either of them — and the resentment builds quietly until it does not. This workbook gives dual-career couples a structured process for naming the assumptions underneath their current arrangement, addressing the trades they have been avoiding, and building a shared operating agreement they can live by. The output is not a compromise. It is Your Dual-Career Partnership Agreement — a signed contract both partners have chosen.
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Sample questions
- What does it mean to be in a relationship where two careers both matter — and what are the unspoken rules your household has developed about whose work takes priority?
- What has your partnership asked you to give up professionally — and what has it made possible that you couldn't have done alone?
- What agreements does your dual-career partnership most need — and what conversation hasn't happened yet?
Research basis
Petriglieri on dual-career couples and identity negotiation / Rapoport on dual-career families / Greenhaus on work-family conflict in dual-earner partnerships.
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