You know how to build a company. Most high achievers have no idea how to build a marriage, and success doesn't prepare you for the parts that matter most.
In this episode, Katarina Polonska shares five realities she sees again and again with founders and executives. First: performing is part of the job, but when you perform all day for years, the work version of you starts to feel like the real one. The person who sees that version every day is the person you end up feeling understood by, which is why so many affairs begin at the office. Second: at your level, the hardest skill isn't performing. It's putting the performance down at home, bringing your needs and your vulnerability to the one person who's supposed to know you.
From there she covers the investment a marriage takes, in time, attention, and learning, the way you once invested in your career. She explains why generosity (including a clearly stated boundary) keeps a relationship healthy while withholding keeps it stuck, and why your marriage deserves the same deliberate priority you give your business.
Along the way she tells her own story: the counselor who told her she was "always so put together" even as she cried in his office, what that revealed, and how she and her husband protect their marriage today.
None of these are traits you either have or don't. They're skills, and they can be learned.
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About the Host Katarina Polonska is a Strategic Relationship Advisor and a Gender Dynamic Social Scientist from the University of Oxford. She has 15 years of experience studying love, gender, and relationships.
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