Is Your Professional Career Affecting Your Relationship?

Are you a Business Executive, Doctor, Therapist, Pilot or Police Officer?

How about a Lawyer, Entertainer, Nurse, Dancer/Choreographer or Broadcaster?

Let’s face it, being a professional is hard work. You have a unique set of difficulties on a daily or almost daily basis. There is tremendous pressure to deliver services or products, perform nearly flawlessly under tight deadlines, manage crises, face high levels of risk to yourself, your customers or your company, and are required to make decisions that affect many other people.

According to Forbes’ magazine, the following careers are tremendously stressful on a relationship and on the individual.

• Police Office or Detective
• Military Service member
• Firefighter
• Pilot
• Event Coordinator
• Senior Corporate Executive
• Public Relations Executive
• Newspaper Reporter
• Taxi Driver

Radford University conducted a study on divorce rates for some professional careers.

• Athlete or entertainer: 28% divorce rate
• Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides: 29% divorce rate
• Massage therapists: 38% divorce rate
• Dancers & choreographers: 43% divorce rate

It takes a professional to understand one. Before I became a Marriage and Family Therapist & Owner of the Trinity Relationship Center, I spent more than 15 years as a Television News Producer, Licensed Realtor and Business Owner. I have been under pressure to coordinate live reports, re-organize the newscast and write a story during breaking news, bring a home to the closing table when things are falling apart and make decisions on the fly that could impact dozens of people. I can probably relate to the chaos you go through in your profession. Throughout my career as a Marriage and Family Therapist, I have helped numerous doctors, engineers, nurses, business owners, police officers and other professionals rebuild their relationships. Let me help you, the professional, as well.