How do you folks in 2 BigLaw Associate couples make it work? My partner recently joined biglaw (I’ve been in for 3 years now) and it seems like it’s ruining our relationship. Any tips or words of advice?

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We both have will setup laptops and portable monitors and work from the same room when we are both busy on nights weekends and wfh days.

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Biglaw couple here - senior associate + partner. You just have to be able to be super flexible with your schedule and be okay with not having much of a social life (at least for us)/not really being able to plan a lot of events in advance. It’s all about the trade offs and for us, it’s worth it

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Oh lolz (figured that was the case, but didn’t want other folks to think we had to 😊)

do quickies in between zoom calls

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Give tons of grace. Work out and eat/cook together.

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