Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

You HAVE to Open up with your Partner

18 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Jacqueline Elliott's husband stayed in a job he hated even though they had money. When she finally asked what was wrong, he admitted he was miserable. She argues that financial comfort doesn't guarantee happiness, and partners need to push each other toward work that actually matters.

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I would say if you did speak openly with your spouse, if you didn't love what you do you would hold each other accountable in searching exactly what it is that you love. You know money is one thing like there was a time in our life where we didn't Andy didn't like what he was doing. He didn't feel like he was working for the right people. He wasn't in love with what he did but he just continued to work and he wasn't involving me in the decisions on that. And finally I realized how much he hated that when he opened up and he said that and I was really really shocked because I thought I was being a supportive wife in what he want wanted to do. Like we had the houses, we had the cars we had everything I guess any woman would really want but it really didn't mean anything. What I really wanted is to have a man that I could look up to one that was close.