In Business With Your Spouse? Should You Have a Written Relationship Agreement?

  Okay, I'll admit it. The first time I thought about being in business with my spouse, I wondered if I too should have relationship agreements in writing. Then I realized whether or not my relationship agreements were written on a piece of paper, I did have agreements with my spouse. There are unspoken contracts of behavior between a couple whether they create a contract or not.

  If you're starting a business with your spouse, and want to truly become a Power Couple, then it will increase your success rate to have relationship agreements. Generating, discussing, and then taking the time to write agreements helps to bring the unspoken agreements to light. It also clarifies the areas where you may have minor conflict, or may not have considered important at the onset of your business.

  And rest assured all couples have contracts; it doesn't matter if you're married or have just started dating. Contracts can be simple expectations of who will do what, who will pay for what, timelines and such.

  Often the first unspoken contract is what I call the "Infidelity Clause." Meaning, "You don't sleep with anyone else but me, or it's over." However, Power Couples have agreements not because they want to secure the relationship; they choose to have agreements to empower their relationship.

  Agreements are something a couple builds by talking together. Communicating your feelings helps bring about understanding, alliance and clarity. This empowers both your working and home life relationship as it aligns you both on the same page.

  In your relationship agreement, you may want to identify and establish how you treat each other at work. Roles may be very different at work than at home and a united front at the office is critical for respect, expectations of those working with you and good professional relationships. If you are co-CEO's you will have to establish who makes the final decision if both of you are at odds on a particular choice.

  Then the respective partner who does not make that final decision cannot harbor resentment towards the decision making partner. If you have the relationship agreements before you open your business together, you will have established some equanimity moving forward together.

  If you already have a business, you may want to establish agreements as these will help you be on the same page together. Just remember that when you work together, you will achieve success together.

  Did you know that 98% of couples who go into business together will destroy their marriage and ruin their business? But it doesn't have to be this way for you. Instead why not join the over 8 million other couple entrepreneurs who enjoy the freedom and wealth lifestyle of couple entrepreneurship. The couple Entrepreneurs Leadership Alliance has a FREE Special Report that will help you decide if owning a business with your spouse is right for you. Click this link now http://www.thecelacenter.com/special-report Go get your FREE Special Report now and Achieve success together!

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