The 8 Myths of Marriaging by Richard Eyre

Author:Richard Eyre
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Making Marriage a verb and Replacing Myth with Truth
ISBN: 9781641702041
Publisher: Familius
Published: 2019-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

5-7: AN EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR TOP MANAGEMENT

Early in our marriage, at the suggestion of a wise mentor, we started having a Sunday Session each week as a couple. We would go through the schedule for the week ahead, do a little evaluating of the week just passed, try to clear up any unresolved issues in our relationship, and deal with any concerns we had about the kids.

Sometimes the simplest key to better communication is just to have a meeting!

The top management in a two-parent family would be those two parents. Perhaps the wife could be the CEO and the dad could be the CFO, or vice versa.

Like any top management team, they would probably want to have an Executive Session once a week to review how things are going, set some goals, and perhaps make a few policy adjustments.

Holding these regular meetings might improve your family’s organization and generate better results. It might cut down scheduling conflicts and get both managers on the same page. And it might even improve the relationship between the two managers as they work together on their common interests and objectives.

In our case, at first, it seemed a little odd to have a meeting with the person you live with, but the longer we did it, the more we realized how much we needed it—and the more hooked we got on holding it “religiously” each Sunday. In fact, we decided that living together was the very reason we did have to schedule an actual meeting; it was a time we could count on to get a little more organized and to communicate a little better.

At that point in our lives, we decided that Linda was the general partner for what went on inside the home, or the “inner partner,” and Richard was the “outer partner,” dealing with what went on outside the home. We had equal ownership in both but would each give a little report or update on our domain, since we spent more of our time and energy there.

We also added an element to our Sunday Sessions that we simply called “testimonies”. During this time, we would each take a few moments to express our feelings and beliefs to the other. This quickly became our favorite aspect of the weekly sessions, because it was when positive feelings were expressed and negative feelings were aired out and resolved. And we found that in the somewhat structured and spiritual setting of our weekly meeting, offense was seldom taken and any festering feelings were let out and cleared up.

We figured out that even the setting and environment for our Sunday Session mattered. If a high-level management meeting were held at the water cooler or in the hall, it wouldn’t be as effective or meaningful as if you held it in the boardroom or the executive office. Likewise, we found that if we just chatted in the car on the way to church or made a couple of catch-up comments on the way to bed, the experience was nowhere near as effective as actually sitting down in a conducive setting at a specific time.

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