The home is where a family lives; it is an abode for the wife, husband and the children if the couple deem fit. It might be that while reading this piece of article you might not be married, but it is always good to know what to do and also to plan ahead. 

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Career is either a job or a profession someone does over a long period of time. Since marriage is a life contract (till death do us part) assuming there is no breach in contract (divorce), career has to be balanced with it. Career is a path to tread on, likewise family albeit with a partner. 
It is good to know how to do both together and come out as a winner career wise and also as a family person. This is not gender biased, so it is for both the lady and the gentleman. I with me some points to go through in order to balance both family and career.

1.	Set the main goal(s) with your spouse: It is advisable for the couple to sit down and discuss the goals and purpose of the family, for them to know the direction of which the family is moving. This is best done before the wedding but it is never too late after. The couple should say if they want to raise kids, get rich, go on a missionary mission or whatever it is. This would enable each party to know how to go about their careers without hindering the goal of the family.

2.	Budget together: It is true that people no longer believe in joint account, but one thing that is sure is that the family has to budget together. They have to know how to allocate some amount of money for a particular thing; feeding, transportation and the likes. This would make each of the couple to know what is expected of them, and so knows how to tweak the profession or job as the case might be to suit the family demands.

3.	Make work and home to be a single entity: When work and home is seen as one single piece, it makes someone to not place one over the other for long. It ensures that one should not stand in the place of the other but to complement each other. 

4.	Competition should be shunned: When the wife is doing better than her significant other, the husband should not see it as a competition and start to dedicate more time to his own job at the expense of the family. Or vice-versa. The family should be united and any wins should be celebrated together.

5.	Subscribe to your spouse’s work: This simply means that you should follow your partner's job or work, know what he/she is doing and how well it is going. Get involved in it, this would make the family more fun and the burden at work could be shared. It would serve as both a bonding time and also a way of making job and family one entity.

6.	Stop selfishness: Concern for the feelings of the spouse has to come first, any decision taken must not be for oneself alone but of the family. Once selfishness is dealt with, all other things set in place and the family is balanced well with the career.
One of the tricks to having a healthy marriage is to learn how to keep family and career balanced.


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Written by @heeyahnuh, edited and posted by @camzy

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