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Susan has a good paying, responsibility laden position as the Human Resources manager of a large company. Allen, her husband also has a good job as a marketing representative for a large manufacturer. Allen is on the road three days per week, and frequently is required to spend at least one night away from home in order to have an early start with clients the next day.
The couple has two school-age children, a girl age 9, and a boy age 7. Both attend school, sometimes having to stay in a temporary day-care facility until Susan can pick them up after she finishes work.
On one particular day, Susan has an unusually stressful day. She spent the morning negotiating the new company health insurance rates from several carriers. Prices were out of sight and no one could agree on the benefits which need to be cut. She also had to fire one of the company's leading salepeople because he had been repeatedly caught in deceptive sales practices.
Allen, had failed to remember his daughter's piano recital the previously night, as he had scheduled an out-of-town meeting with a major client, this having to spend the night out-of-town. To top that off, he was in major danger of losing that client to competition. This situation was out of his control, as his company was becoming very non-competitive in this particular market.
Needless to say, when they both arrived home the next evening, each spouse was under a good deal of stress. They discovered that their son had been injured at school because another boy had punched him in the face and had broken his nose. The school had failed to contact Susan, as Susan's calls had been held during her busy day.
Naturally, the main concern that evening was for their son, as he seemed more upset that his mom had not responded to his crisis, that him having any serious injury. The daughter was distraught that her father had missed her recital and could not understand how he could have been so uncaring.
Dinner had to be prepared, which Susan hastily put together, and suited nobody, including her. Arguments erupted over dinner and continued on into the evening until everyone was ready for bed. Both children went to be upset, and Susan and Allen really began to go at it when they were alone.
The disagreements esculated into name-calling and blaming, which did absolutely no good insofar as solving any issues, as the pressures actually causing the problems were all external and largely due to uncontrollable circumstance.
Divorce was mentioned on both sides and they both finally drifted off to sleep after midnight, even though everyone would have to be "up and at-em" early the next morning.
This type of scenario is very typical of many marriages today, where external events dictate when and how families deal with the events in their lives. Even though Susan and Allen earn high salaries from their jobs and they live quite well, the price that they are paying is very high in their relationships with each other and their children.
A good, third party look at their marriage strategies in light of these pressures is going to be a "must do" if they are to solve their problems. They probably have the same feelings, desires and goals they had when they first were married, but life circumstances have hijacked their marriage.
Annie Hershey has been a relationship counselor for the past 20 years. She works primarily with married couples who find themselves in turmoil just in dealing with all of the headaches that life throws our way when we have to deal with separate careers, children, financial issues, and more.
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