A founder describes five years running a business with her husband, who constantly chased the next thing instead of staying present. She carried all the weight while he looked elsewhere. She finally left the business to protect her own growth, though they stayed married.
we, you know, we would bump heads from time to time because he would get distracted and, you know, the, the grass was always greener somewhere else. And when he got distracted, I got left behind trying to manage everything plus grow, plus fill the void he left because he wasn't present. And so we struggled with that for like 5 years, to be completely transparent. One day I said to him, you know what? I'm gonna leave you before you leave me. And this is all in the context of business. I was never gonna leave him as my husband, but I didn't know what else to do because we were not able to grow. We were not able to scale because too many distractions.
