Working with a spouse is very risky business

Seeing each other 24-7 can add unwanted stress to any marriage

It’s generally a really bad idea to fire an employee at her home, but there’s a notable exception: when that employee is your wife.

In that case, it’s an abysmal idea.

Though he loves her dearly, Gabe Karp had never liked the idea of working with his spouse, Rachel. "I’d rather go to a dentist appointment every day of the week," he says.

Part of the problem was that his wife tended to want more "Honey-Sweetie" displays of affection than Karp was willing to provide at the office. He also had a habit of using his "work tone of voice" — curt, staccato bullet points — when he talked to her. "You don’t have to speak to me that way," she would say. "You can ask nicely." And when he raised an issue about her work, she sometimes took it personally and countered with a retort like, "Oh yeah, well I noticed you left your dishes in the sink this morning."

By Jared Sandberg
The Wall Street Journal

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