Comments on: Podcast: Busting myths of the two-travel job couple

By: Harshawardhan

Harshawardhan — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:22:35 +0000

Thank you for considering.
We’ll be waiting for it. And thank you for mentioning it in the latest episode.
Also Congratulations to both of you on 1st year of Best Of Both Worlds. Greetings from India.

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:09:40 +0000

In reply to Harshawardhan.

@Harshawardhan – so glad you’re enjoying the podcasts! And nothing offensive at all – we’re definitely hoping to include a same-sex couple with kids in the next season of Best of Both Worlds. I agree that there are interesting differences when there are no traditional gender lines to split things across.

By: Harshawardhan

Harshawardhan — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:07:30 +0000

Hello,
Sarah and Laura

I’m Harshawardhan ( or Harsh)
I’ve been listening to the podcasts on this site and I really like them. Though I have very little to relate, I find it very useful to hear what challenges female counterparts have to face as working parents.

Since this particular post is related to both parents requiring to travel for work, and that most of the times means that they have almost equally demanding job.
My question is will the listeners have a podcast in the future interviewing a same sex couple – working parent. And how they manage households along with their jobs since there are no traditional gender roles involved.
I’d really like listen to such a podcast.
Thanks.
( Apologies if something I’ve written is offensive to someone)

Harshawardhan

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 01:42:42 +0000

In reply to Noelle. @Noelle - thanks for listening! And yes, kids are resilient. Given that families get through deployments, probably most kids are going to be fine with a parent's two-day trip to Chicago.

By: Noelle

Noelle — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:12:04 +0000

Thank you for this episode, I’ve been a fan of the podcast since it started! I also appreciate that you mentioned military families and the stress of frequent deployments. My husband and I are both military with two small children (ages 3 and 1) and no one has ever asked him if it’s difficult balancing fatherhood with a job that has him deployed and away from his family 6 months out of the year. Even though he spends many long months away from our kids, we still talk about him daily and they know that daddy is working to protect our country on his “big ship”. 🙂

By: Theresa Mischel Smith

Theresa Mischel Smith — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 04:15:32 +0000

How do you connect as a couple? Do you do date nights? How do you plan them? What does your schedule collaboration look like and does arrangement of childcare typically fall to the women?

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 12:23:55 +0000

This was a really interesting topic given my own situation: husband and I have a toddler and our current jobs seldom involve travel. But five years ago, I was in a sales role and traveled most weeks of the month to conferences and potential clients, while he traveled for 1-2 weeks at a time with little notice. So we burnt out fast with our schedules, finding ourselves missing each other by hours at LaGuardia or JFK. So some of the myths were true for us, but more so because we didn’t want these jobs and these demands on our time as a DINK couple (dual income, no kids). We wanted more time for ourselves, for each other, and frankly…we wanted a dog.

Fast forward to today, and the next leve or two up for us may involve more travel, but we could more easily embrace that. And I still want to be home more: we have created a home life we really enjoy and want to be there for. If I start traveling more, this episode was a good reminder of all the tools in our toolbox to help it all balance out.