3 vital Boundaries for Mom Entrepreneurs and Their Husbands

In the beginning, I concept it was going to be a waddle when my husband, Terry, joined me working full-time in my business. If anyone could do it, we could! We already had a healthy relationship built on trust and respect. We communicated well. We both strongly believed in what we were doing. We understood the need to attend each other with the children, keeping the house, and with the business. We planned to allow for fluctuations in income to sustain stresses over money to a minimum. Yet I level-headed wasn’t prepared.

For anyone considering working with your spouse, here are 3 primary Boundaries for Entrepreneurial Couples to attend to ease your transition:

1. define expectations for work/home.
Nothing can prepare you for the blurring of boundaries and turf that occur as you transition into working together. When you join together with your spouse, most likely, both of you have experienced success throughout your careers, and have developed your fill working style. Suddenly you have a whole current dynamic in your relationship with your spouse you must learn to work through. I always knew that we had different gifts and talents: Terry is very techie and he loves to write, and I am a people person who is an administrative whiz. Even though I should have probably seen it coming, I was collected surprised at the dissimilarity in our work styles. I multi-task all day long, and he prefers to work on one project at a time. objective like being newlyweds all over again, we had to effect some wretchedness into getting to know each other on a whole unique level to be able to work well together.

Beth Butler, creator of the Boca Beth Program has some apt tips for clarifying expectations with your spouse. “I accomplish us lunch each day and we try to talk about BOCA BETH items that are pressing. It's our time to reconnect - he works from home for the wine company he represents and I work from home sharing my passion for second language learning with young children. A humorous mix, but it works! We talk about what each of us has planned the next day so there are no surprises - and I exercise that time to ask for his encourage. I can't demand him to guess what I need so I have learned to be very specific.”


2. Schedule time for treasure.
Most entrepreneurial couples complain they have less time together than before. It is possible to work beside your spouse in the same office all day long and barely allege on a personal level. How difficult is it to turn off your cell phone and talk a gallop with your admire? It is imperative to gain it a point to schedule time for your relationship so that the business does not overtake it. Terry and I view ahead to sneak away for lunch or to buy a wreck at Starbucks. We have found if we don’t assume the time to schedule in these lunch or coffee dates, then they are less likely to happen as we work to meet deadlines or collect a project done. We haven’t yet been able to master scheduling “regular dates”, but its next on our list of priorities in order to assist hold our halt relationship.

3. Schedule time for yourself.
It can be a shock when you suddenly have so great time with your spouse. In your previous life, they left at 7 AM and came home at 6 PM, and then you discussed your day during dinner. Now you utilize most (if not all) of the day with them, and during dinner, there is nothing modern to discuss. Where is the time for you? Karyn Fagan, Founder of Team Women, tells “We both have hobbies that we savor outside of the house so we have that vital away time.”

Terry and I certainly have a long intention to go as an Entrepreneurial Couple, but we have made it through our entrepreneurial “honeymoon” period. Each day, we work together to approach our goals and dreams. We understand when we relieve each other we will come our dreams sooner, so we wait on each wherever its needed!