The pitfalls of marrying an entrepreneur
The Financial Times just ran a very interesting article on the pitfalls of marrying an entrepreneur.
As they point out:
- We want to conquer the world and are willing to sacrifice almost everything, including our relationships, to the altar of success.
- We want to be challenged in life and will not settle for anything.
- We have a tendency to overpower, or at least try to dominate relationships and when it happens we get bored and break up.
This sounds exactly like my dating life :)
Read the full article at:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3707a03a-8754-11dc-a3ff-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
Comments (3)
This is so, so true…..
I believe that one has to distinguish private and business life. Being larger than life as an entrepreneur should not lead to tyrannize or dominate significant others.
Why can’t entrepreneurs just relax once home and take it easy ? Many famous business men were totally sweet in their private life: think of Warren Buffett.
I have to agree with Fa. High drive is rarely intellectual alone. Your agression hormones get all amp’d up. Testerone, dopamine and adrenaline do not just shut down after getting all spun up. A similar effect occurs when you overdate. That is to say run a string of 5 girls at a time with a baseball batting order like rotation. ( necessary in USA where women have bad attitudes even when fat … ) The testosterone goes to such high levels you get what my male friends and I called the silver-back effect. Named so because the dominant male silver back gets his coloration from hormonal changes………however in the end when you are ready for a family/kids Fa you just need to decide to place your ambition on the table. You really do have a choice between the ambition and the family thing in many ways because of this usage of hormonal motivation. You can delay the choice for a while but in the end you really probably will be forced to make it. If you do meet your match from my experience she is likely to rip your balls off and feed them to you. True story happened to me(not literally)….and she was the hottest coder girl ever seen.