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If your business fails, its not entangled with the relationship. You can't necessarily blame your husband or wife for the failures of the business. It leaves to
by alttab 12y ago
If your business fails, its not entangled with the relationship. You can't necessarily blame your husband or wife for the failures of the business. It leaves too much in the gray and too many things can go wrong.
Also, think about it this way: if you fail, there is a high likelyhood that you both will be feeling down, blaming each others shortcomings for the collective failure, and be stretched with no money and no jobs between the two of you. A highly stressful situation that only the best relationships will survive. Are you ready for that? The "If you start a business with your spouse, you're going to have a bad time" meme comes to mind here.
- duncan_bayne 12y ago> If your business fails, its not entangled with the relationship That is simply false, based on direct personal experience, and observations of other people close to me. For example, I know a guy who co-founded a company. His co-founder got divorced, and his wife (not involved in the company in any way) got a slice of the company as partial divorce settlement. My own experience was co-founding a company where my wife was not, on paper, 'involved'. But she was an invaluable source of support, advice and motivation. Perhaps to ask this question differently: how do you think it's possible to have a significant relationship with someone, while completely excluding them from the other most important endeavour in your life?