Could a ‘Performance Review’ Save Your Marriage?

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Experts say couples should schedule a workplace-like ‘performance review’ to maintain a healthy relationship. If not … well, someone may get fired.

European Editor at Large

Published Oct. 6 2015 5:15PM EDT

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When my wife and I left the vibrant delights of an apartment just off Fifth Avenue, New York City for the calmer charms of a windswept potato field in Ireland 10 years ago, we resolved we would have six-monthly ‘check-ins’, where we would both give our opinion in how things...

Tom Sykes

European Editor at Large

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Could a ‘Performance Review’ Save Your Marriage?

Experts say couples should schedule a workplace-like ‘performance review’ to maintain a healthy relationship. If not … well, someone may get fired.

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