Love and business don't mix.

Many people believe that love and business don't mix, an old saying. This is not necessarily true, the key is to allow yourselves to be individuals, to allow for separate faucets at those times when you are engaged in them. The destruction occurs when immaturity of not being able to control their egos, and holding control over one another while in a love business relationship. This requires balance, a sort of neutrality and understanding.

There are many couples out there with successful coop relationships, they simply don't allow the negative egocentrics and banter to interfere, and have an understanding to listen to each other, and each others perspectives with respect, and not try to prove something in a power struggle, allowing for good dialogue. Standing close in the aspect of love and business, yet remaining individuals, and relishing in what it is that makes up each other as a whole, and separately.

Why do some make it harder than it has to be by fearing they can't control their own ego and power struggles, and then project those insecurities onto their partner? If you think about it, love is a business, so is marriage. Even if there is no monetary business involved in them. So according to this old saying, "love and business don't mix", means you would be alone for a very long time, and miss opportunities to make life great, this saying is a fraud. It is simply their own control issues they need to release and learn to live without, what's there to prove, your smarter, better, more powerful? With that attitude you deserve to be alone, let go of the ego. Life's to short and full of so much joy to create in your partnerships. Dive into it and figure out how to take it to the highest heights, instead of destructive lows that only slow it down and hold it back due to fear.
Learn to allow for each others individuality and quirks, stand together unified in wonder of each others similarities and brilliance's, then simply love each other for it. Balance!


"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."


— Khalil Gibran (The Prophet)



William Wooding