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When couples hire help but create more work for themselves

We hired someone to help with the house and yard work because we're both overwhelmed, but now we spend hours coordinating what they should do and checking their work and it feels like we created more work instead of less. My spouse thinks I'm being controlling but I think they're not paying attention to what actually needs to happen.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to move faster by adding resources often creates new forms of complexity that require slower, more intentional coordination.

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