Is Your Business Your Affair Partner #marriage #entrepreneur

24 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that many entrepreneurs treat their business like an affair, seeking validation, worthiness, acceptance, and a sense of belonging from their work instead of from their spouse. He claims that society now accepts prioritizing a business over a marriage, effectively making it an acceptable form of adultery. This misplaced emotional reliance leaves the spouse’s emotional needs unmet and the entrepreneur’s own emotional needs unfulfilled, as they look to the wrong source for fulfillment.

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A woman knows who you love the most. A woman knows if you're in love with your business more than you're in love with her. And we now live in a society where, you know, loving your business more than your wife, it's an acceptable form of adultery. And I was going to my business for the things I should have been getting from my marriage. I was going to my business for validation. I was going to my business to get worthiness. I was going to my business to get accepted and feel belonged. Were things that were not happening. She was not getting her emotional needs met, and I was going to the wrong place to get my emotional needs met.

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