Reasons Relationships Fail: Work

Video Transcript

"Alright we're talking about reasons why relationships deteriorate. And another big one is work, and there are actually a lot of work related issues. What the big one is related to work is that one particular person works too much, or works too late or brings their work home. Because what happens is the other person starts to feel like, "Well, I'm not as important as your work.” A lot of it also has to do with the time that you spend with the people that you work with as well as how much time you spend talking about them. Like, you go home and you're always talking about your secretary or you're always talking about your boss or one of your co-workers. Something else that is really a problem is with retired couples. It's been proven that relationships start to deteriorate in couples that maybe been married twenty, thirty, forty years, because one of them retires and the other is still working. So, you know, and I think the same thing exactly happens with a stay at home mom and he goes to work. Well, when he gets home, he's been working all day but there's, you know, again, an expectation that he's going to help her with the kids and the house and so forth and so on. So work can create a big problem as far as deterioration goes but not nearly as much of a problem as what work is connected to and that's money. And we're going to talk about money next."