Are we using our partners to climb the career ladder?

Updated On: 01 September, 2023 10:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Ainie Rizvi

Often partners leverage each other’s strengths to attain career goals. In the chase for new heights, one’s success may begin to overshadow the other’s social status. Relationship experts dissect the trend and suggest healthy measures to tackle unequal power dynamics

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In pursuit of success, spousal relations may switch from banal exchange of love to calculated dynamics fueled by passion. Photo Courtesy:iStock

Keeping aside the customary label of ‘sacred’; marriages are also a nexus of dreams. Behind the polished facade of power couples, a nuanced story unfolds – where personal ambition turns wedding vows into strategic career prospects. With unequal power dynamics, spousal relations tend to undergo a twist. Especially, when one partner`s rise begins to cast shadows on the other`s sacrifice.

Such is the case of the Indian civil servant Jyoti Maurya and her husband, Alok Maurya. Unnerving revelations about Jyoti’s integrity stunned the nation and incited social media backlash recently. Her spouse, Alok – a Grade-4 employee with the Uttar Pradesh government, claims that she abandoned the 13-year-long marriage upon clearing the provincial civil service exam to become a Sub-Divisional Magistrate.

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