<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/warren-betsy-talbot.jpg" width="120" height="106" alt="Warren and Betsy Talbot" class="alignleft" />Not too many years ago, I would have resisted the idea of working with my husband Warren in any capacity. We’re both bull-headed. He’s a morning person, and I’m a night owl. He likes to lead, where I prefer to recruit. On a bad day, those tendencies turn us into a dictator and a manipulator.</p>
<p>Sounds like a healthy working environment, right?</p>
<p>We never thought about the idea of working together until we started traveling the world in 2010. As we continued on our own paths of self-discovery, our relationship got some heavy analysis as well. And with no “regular” life to distract us &#8211; no jobs, no home, and no regular friends, we got up close and personal with every issue in our relationship. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/05/treating-your-relationship-like-a-business/" title="Permanent Link: Treating Your Relationship Like a Business" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2170,"date":"2014-05-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2020-12-27T22:27:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T03:27:28","slug":"treating-your-relationship-like-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/05\/treating-your-relationship-like-a-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating Your Relationship Like a Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/warren-betsy-talbot.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"106\" alt=\"Warren and Betsy Talbot\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Not too many years ago, I would have resisted the idea of working with my husband Warren in any capacity. We\u2019re both bull-headed. He\u2019s a morning person, and I\u2019m a night owl. He likes to lead, where I prefer to recruit. On a bad day, those tendencies turn us into a dictator and a manipulator.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a healthy working environment, right?<\/p>\n<p>We never thought about the idea of working together until we started traveling the world in 2010. As we continued on our own paths of self-discovery, our relationship got some heavy analysis as well. And with no \u201cregular\u201d life to distract us &#8211; no jobs, no home, and no regular friends, we got up close and personal with every issue in our relationship. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/05\/treating-your-relationship-like-a-business\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Treating Your Relationship Like a Business\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}