Plenty of family businesses are run by husband and wife teams that manage to share their professional lives without driving each other bonkers, and many couples actually met while working together and feel comfortable with one another in and out of the office.
Taking this idea one step further, the New York Times ran a piece about women who are the CEOs of their companies and hire their husbands to work for them in less-powerful roles. These arrangements require successful communication from both parties and expectations that are understood on the same page. Do you think you'd be able to handle working with your husband?

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Hussein Chalayan
Star by Julien Macdonald
I doubt it. I love him but I'm pretty sure he would annoy me after a little while. My sister in law and her husband do and they amaze me.
1When I was married to my ex, we ran a business together with two other partners. The business did great, and it wasn't that that broke us up.
With my fiance, it would be a bad idea. We make each other lazy
2...not that I'm married. But I need my space in relationships.
3Can and do. My husband and I met at the office, though we had different job descriptions at the time. Now we have the same job title, him with a permanent position at a high profile company, and me as a consultant. We consult for each other's projects frequently, both officially and unofficially on our morning walks, and do side projects together.
I would love to work full time at the same company as him, but honestly we're not the problem, it's everyone else. Our industry is 90% male, and while his co-workers seem to love me, my husband and I have decided that the office politics, with his current situation, wouldn't be ideal. Maybe someday though.
4Yes. We are both creative and passionate about goals His thinking method is inductive while mine is deductive. We have a great relationship in dealing and solving problems in all aspects of life.
5I met my boyfriend at my last job and we worked really well together. When I move company's he came on aboard about a year later and working together is fabulous! I love carpooling and spending extra time together and the best part is that if I have a rough day or a great day he knows exactly what Im talking about and can really understand my frustration or my excitement. We just have to make sure to set aside some apart time outside of work otherwise we'd be together literally 24/7.
6I met my boyfriend at my job and as time went on I realized that I couldn't work with him anymore. Every couple needs space and time to miss eachother.
7My boyfriend was my boss for a little while, and then we worked at a restaurant together. NOT a good idea!
8I met my guy at my last job too, I was an employee and his agency was contracted to do the communications..3 years later, i work for him/together. We work from home, we share an office and I honestly have a hard time to imagine anything different for us. But we know other couples that ended badly b/c of that so we are VERY careful and try to respect each other as though we are regular co0-workers in an office.
9I think we could do it if we had different projects or if we had a Mom-and-Pop sort of business but not if one of us is in a significantly higher position than the other.
10My parents worked together my whole life--I thought it would make me crazy, but they loved it. Now that they don't I think they miss each other!
11my parents worked together for most of their careers. they weren't on the same team, but some of what they did overlapped. it seemed to work out fine for them!
12Yes, we already work in the same office, although not together but I think we could make a good team.
13We have a plan for the future that we would be working together. He is an electrican and in about 5-10 years he is going to buy 1/2 of the business and I will take over in the office. We wouldn't actaully be together in the same office most of the time as he would be in the field most of the day.
14I would totally kill him. Or quit. Lol.
15My husband and I have worked together for over 4 years. We ride to work every day together, we work in the same office, our desks used to face each other, but then we moved to a different office and we sit about 3 feet away from each other. We even go to lunch together. Everyone is always like "It would NOT be a good idea for me to work with my husband/wife like that" But, for us, it just works. We're best friends. We hardly ever fight or argue. It just works.
16nope, i really don't think i could; i work as an emt and he's a construction worker. haha but essentially, the time apart at work is good for us
17We do work together and on top of that we work for his parents. All 4 of us share an office and it works well. We go on business trips together and vacation. We do have a very unusual situation but I'm very glad that it works!
18i think that it would really depend on what his role was in the ocmpany. i met my fiance when we were working at the same agency, and i had a more superior role, but in a completely different department, so it's not like we really crossed paths all that much.
19I used to work for my husband - he was one of my managers, and it was fine... I talked back to him more than I would have any other boss though
20Definitely not. We are both gone from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day and are so tired by that time we spend barely 3 waking hours per day together. I LIKE feeling like I can't get enough of him -- and I hate to think what would happen if I DID get enough of him!!
21A few years back, my bf helped me get a job where he works.
It worked out ok because he worked graveyard and I worked during the day.
But I got tired of the gossip (like anywhere else) and didn't take the job too seriously.
22As soon as I found a better job, I gave in my 2 week notice.
Im not married but living with my boyfriend and I need my space. I want to be able to miss him.
23Worked w/ my then fiance at the time for about 8 months. It wasn't that bad, b/c we worked in different divisions. I think I could work w/ him anywhere!
24I doubt that my fiance and I will ever work together (he's a Marine, I'm a women's studies major), but I think we could handle it. I work with my sister now--and we have a pretty tense relationship to begin with--but things are working out well.
25There is a couple at our work that are married and I'm pretty sure they met here, but you wouldn't even know they were married if you worked here for a week or two and no one told you. I think that would be the key, keeping it as professional as possible.
I absolutely could. But I think it's saner for us not to, so I'd prefer no to.
26Yes, and I do. I work for my hubby, yes he gives the orders. It's a home based business and we have been married for 25 years and have only slept apart 2 nights. I do work temp work outside the home, but not so much in the last 2 years. On top of that he cooks, does his own laundry, keeps the kitchen clean when I cook, makes the bed and cleans the bathroom. He does not vacuum though. I know!
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