Beware the toll that startup dream can have on your relationship

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Relationship risk is so significant that startup accelerator programs are now incorporating a focus on the relationship and mental health aspects of founders.

Mention the word "startup", and it’s likely that meeting cool and smart people, oodles of cash, freedom and passion come to mind. Sure there’s hard work and long hours, but nobody ever changed the world working 9 to 5.

And while money problems are often the source of relationship friction, as it is with most relationship problems, even those startups that are succeeding financially can consume so much of a founder’s time that it can tear couples apart. Startups can also change the dynamics of a relationship in unexpected ways, including the power dynamics.

"A founder is creating a business that doesn't yet exist, so there's no structure, there's no format," says Judge. "They're dealing with high risk situations all the time, constantly switched on 24/7, so there's not a clear go to work at nine and finish at five. You're constantly switched on." Even now, Dry who married partner Asher in November last year and is expecting their first child later this year, struggles to switch off work to have quality, uninterrupted family time.

 

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