When Your Partner Isn’t Giving You the Support You Need | Women at Work | Podcast

Harvard Business Review · Oct 16, 2026 · 55m

Before you got engaged, or had a child, or moved across the country for your partner’s job, did you sit down and ask each other questions like, What makes for a good life? and How much work is too much? Yeah, neither did we. These are the sorts of conversations that researcher Jennifer Petriglieri says lay the foundation for couples, especially working parents, to have a mutually supportive relationship and satisfying, if demanding, careers.

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A woman named Rebecca remembers talking with her husband in depth about their values and goals early on in their relationship. It was a…