[c]ouples face major transitions at three life stages, and at each one they need to revisit how their relationship and careers fit together. They need to re-contract. Each transition revolves around a critical question.
The first, ‘How can we make this work?’, comes early in a couple’s relationship, when they need to combine parallel lives into one joint one.
The second question, ‘What do we really want?’, comes when couples can afford to be fed up with doing what they feel they ought to do.
The third, ‘Who are we now?’, hits when the commitments that often sustained couples early on—mortgages, children, and career acceleration—are behind them.
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