Today’s episode is about a better way to talk about that deeply misleading and cumbersome idea of “work-life balance.” David Whyte’s 2009 book, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship, gives us much more expansive language for integrating our multifaceted lives.
The three marriages Whyte articulates are to (1) work, to (2) self and to (3) relationship. Whyte believes we are all, consciously or unconsciously, committed to these three marriages throughout our lives - and when we use the simplistic language of “balance” to make sense of them we end up impoverished. Because work and life are not actually separate things and therefore cannot be “balanced” against each other without causing havoc. Instead, he invites us to put these three marriages into spirited and lifelong conversation with one another - a marriage of marriages, if you will.
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