Keeping Marriage A Priority in Dual-Income Families
By Dr. Kalman Heller, Child and Family Psychologist When Everything Competes for Time In a dual-earner family, kids and jobs are constantly competing for top priority in the daily schedule. Try to squeeze in time for yourself and the day’s already over. Think about spending time with your spouse and it starts to feel overwhelming before you’ve even planned anything. Most of the couples I see these days are running on almost no investment in their own marriage. It keeps getting pushed aside by whatever feels more urgent, especially the needs of the kids. And yet, in the long run,