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Asking Eric: Partner’s Work Travel Perks Create Problems at Home
Advice columnist R. Eric Thomas recommends focusing on personal interests and emotional boundaries to reduce envy and improve connection, noting work trips can create emotional distance.
- R. Eric Thomas, advice columnist , advised the reader to distance herself from her partner's work life in the Ask Eric column syndicated by Tribune Content Agency.
- Seven months after moving in together, the reader describes her 20-year relationship, her dull office job, and her envy of her partner’s successful work trips and promotion signs.
- The reader detailed examples such as her partner describing lavish meals and resort perks during trips he says he dislikes, while spouses and partners are not invited since these are work functions, and R. Eric Thomas wrote that jobs are separate from love relationships.
- Practically, he recommended the letter writer pursue hobbies and passions after 5 p.m., on weekends or over vacation days to create shared topics beyond work.
- Readers can contact R. Eric Thomas via eric@askingeric.com or P.O. Box 22474, Philadelphia, PA 19110, follow Instagram @oureric, and sign up at rericthomas.com.
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Asking Eric: Partner’s fun work trips have me seething as I’m stuck in my dead-end job
Dear Eric: I am in a 20-year relationship with a mostly great guy, and we finally moved in together seven months ago. Things are going well for the most part considering we both lived on our own for the entire relationship.
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