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Work It—Lesson 16—Make your partner, a partner ?

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Today’s Video Lesson—

The most important choice you’ll make it your career is who you choose for your partner. ?

Are you doing the ‘thinking work’ of your family? In addition to being a busy working mom, are you also the designated worrier in the family—the doctors appointment maker, the camp form filler-outer?

It’s time to bring the burdens of motherhood into the open in your relationship with your partner.

Additional reading—

Mom: The Designated Worrier by Judith Shulevitz in The New York Times

Paternity Leave: The Key to Building Equal Partnerships by Allyson Downey in The Atlantic

Your task + class comments— Do a first pass of our household duties worksheet. Are you currently dividing tasks in a way that makes both of you happy? Let us know how it goes.


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