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Could your personal relationship contribute to professional success?

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So-called ‘growgether’ couples encourage and support each other to achieve greater heights in all aspects of their lives.

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The ‘growgether’ approach relies on open communication, mutual support, and a willingness to learn and adapt together as a couple. (Envato Elements pic)

Managing your relationship and your career is far from easy, but some partners manage it better than others. And the secret to their professional and personal success lies in mutual support and communication, giving them the rather clunk label of being a “growgether” couple.

A contraction of the words “grow” and “together”, the term refers to partners who are actively involved in each other’s personal and professional development. In this type of relationship, the emphasis is on sustainable development and mutual fulfilment, rather than simply being in a relationship.

In other words, growgether couples seek to boost each other so as to be able to meet any challenge – family, professional, sexual and so forth – that comes their way, while ensuring each partner flourishes as an individual.

Things can go wrong at home when one of the two halves is denied a promotion, or has difficulty climbing the corporate ladder. Conversely, the couple can be put to the test when one of the individuals is propelled to the top and abandons their partner in favour of climbing the career ladder.

To avoid these pitfalls, followers of the technique encourage and support each other in their efforts to achieve professional success. They engage in activities that can help them stand out in the job market, such as learning new skills and taking up a sport or hobby, and also set common goals and work together to achieve them.

According to Emma Hathron – an expert from the dating site Seeking.com, which conceptualised the idea of growgether couples – this approach relies on open communication, mutual support, and a willingness to learn and adapt together. This helps foster a relationship where both partners can grow and evolve side by side.

This type of relationship has significant advantages for both partners, who feel that they are not forsaking their careers for their personal lives. In this sense, the phenomenon echoes “power couples”, those professional and romantic pairings that take a determined step towards success, hand in hand. But the emphasis here is more on personal fulfilment than on success at any cost.

In 2016, researchers at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, came to a similar conclusion, suggesting that a couple’s relationship can play a decisive role in career development.

The academics explain this by the fact that “more conscientious partners perform more household tasks, exhibit more pragmatic behaviours that their spouses are likely to emulate, and promote a more satisfying home life, enabling their spouses to focus more on work”.

This could enable their partner to shine in the professional world – proof that relationships have the potential to make or break careers.

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