That worked for my wife and me as well :). To be fair, my advisor went on sabbatical for a year and I helped manage the group while he was gone. I learned a lot

That worked for my wife and me as well :). To be fair, my advisor went on sabbatical for a year and I helped manage the group while he was gone. I learned a lot... My wife was an organic chemist working with some nasty monomers (not good for pregnancy...), so we swapped some tasks. She did my literature searches (this was before easy access to data bases) and I handled her last few reactions. Everything worked out well. The salary for a research scientist was very welcome at the end...