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How to address different life circumstances affecting work partnerships

My research collaborator and I are both working parents but she has a partner who handles pickup and bedtime while I'm doing it alone, and our different home situations keep creating tension around scheduling and deadlines that we're not naming directly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unspoken differences in personal circumstances are creating professional friction that both parties are aware of but haven't found a way to discuss.

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