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Why I did a 3-month Performance Review for my Wife

[This is a preview of a blog post I wrote for Converge Magazine.]

After 3 months of marriage, I decided to have a performance review with my wife. You heard it right, a performance review. I let her know what she was doing well as a wife, and what she needed to improve on. Before you write me off as a chauvinistic jerk (which at times I can be), my wife did the same for me. It was a mutual process. And it was very helpful for strengthening our marriage.

365 arlophotochallenge 103 / 365 - ConversationWhen we got married almost 4 years ago, Olive and I understood that we wouldn’t be very good at marriage at first. It was new to us. I’ve never been a husband before. She’s never been a wife. We’re going to make mistakes and that’s okay. We wanted to get better and learn together.

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