Couples That Work
How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work

This book is based on the premise that life is composed of a series of transitions which professional couples need to navigate. Jennifer Petriglieri (Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD) identifies three key work/life transitions which are triggered by some event which makes it......more

Note I’m not a social scientist so I read this book as a “consumer” of the knowledge presented. And I have a feeling that this is how it was intended. I am a planning person by nature. I think about what it’s like when me and my wife are 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, ... How will we be living? Where? With whom?......more

Earlier in the year I came across the new book Couples that Work by Jennifer Petriglieri. Being a working woman, the title caught my attention and I had high hopes for the book. Due to a variety of issues, I finally just managed to get a copy to read. And I my hopes were dashed. While well-researche......more

While most of the advice I found could be distilled down to telling couples to have meaningful conversations about decisions, values and how they can structure their lives so as to build each other up, it also provided functional models which I think could be helpful to use for the process. Addition......more

Highly recommend for career-driven couples who are worried about making their lives work together. Armed with years of longitudinal research with real couples, Jennifer Petriglieri maps out three transitions in every relationship. -- 1. HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS WORK? - In the first transition, couples move......more