Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Spouses that Don’t Like Your Home Business
Spouses that Don’t Like Your Home Business Opportunity
In an ideal relationship, upon hearing of your dreams of a home-based business, your spouse will jump up, give you a congratulatory hug, and ask how he or she can help. But ideal relationships are a rare commodity—more likely you have a very human relationship, which by its nature is charged with emotions, insecurities, and baggage from past experiences.
Whatever your motivations for starting a home-based business, you’re likely to be proud of your initiative and excited about the potential. And even the most entrepreneurial personalities harbor doubts and a certain fear of failure. What you may be wanting from your spouse—without even knowing it, perhaps—is the moral and emotional support that only a loved one can offer. In fact, your own struggles with self-esteem may be such that the only person you’ve dared to tell about your home business dream is your husband, wife, or partner.
So it can be a crushing blow when your spouse reacts with anything less than your own enthusiasm. You announce this business opportunity affiliate program, and your soul mate gives it the old whatever treatment. Or worse than not taking you seriously, he or she reacts negatively, immediately launching into a litany of reasons why your hare-brained scheme will never work.
Though the temptation may be to take a baseball bat to his new car or weed-whack her flower garden to nubs, you need to think of this as your first obstacle to be overcome. You’re sure to encounter many more roadblocks in starting a business, so take a deep breath and focus on winning over your spouse.
In many ways these kinds of conflicts are nothing new. When two people decide to spend their lives together, each will come to the union with their own vision of the personal partnership. Very traditional men may see a wife’s business opportunity affiliate program as an affront, a not-so-subtle way of saying that the household needs more money, for example. Traditional women, used to being the homemaker, may pale at the idea of having hubby home all the time—as well as worry about the absence of a reliable income.
In other, less traditional relationships, jealousy may play a role. Perhaps your spouse has always wanted to start a home business, too, but hasn’t acted upon his or her dreams. Watching you make the leap may make your partner feel inadequate, left behind.
Whether or not these feelings are appropriate for a mature adult is somewhat irrelevant. IF the feelings exist, it’s important to address them. People can adapt, get comfortable with change and even change their minds. But it takes communication.
Wendy Pearson
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