3 Science-backed Ways to Be a Team-player

How can you improve your relationship scientifically with Teamwork? Since pre-historic time, teamwork has helped humankind survive through all odds. It still helps us greatly in our workplace. Can this also affect our personal relationship with our partners or spouses positively? In the twenty-first century, a great number of women have come out of their roles as homemakers to join the workforce of their countries. In some cases, women work many more hours than their husbands or are the bread earners for their families. We should analyze the changed scenario to have an idea about the balance of power in the families. In the nineteenth or early twentieth century, women were considered as an entity, who would look after her husband and children, cook for them, do the laundry and obey her husband’s orders. Now, when she is also going out for work every day, how can the household chores be done as well as before? The idea of teamwork in the household can do wonders and helps keep the relationship between spouses healthy and harmonic. However, it depends on the mindset of the husband whether teamwork can be run smoothly or not. There are several steps to introduce teamwork in the household successfully. Equal Division of Labor in the household: An unfair division of labor can affect the relationship between couples. Some studies have shown that the couple are happier who have divided their household responsibilities fairly. Women, who believe in equality, are disappointed when they find that their husbands do not believe so. In fact, anyone, who has to bear the total responsibility of the household, will feel that she is doing two full-time jobs; one paid and another, unpaid. How can we divide responsibilities fairly? We can switch chores regularly between ourselves. Or, We can divide jobs as inside or outside. Each one of us can choose the chore, which we like. We must give our 100% to the chore, which we have picked for ourselves. We must think about ourselves as a shared identity. When we are taking some important decisions about our personal life, we must consider its implications for both of us, not only on myself. Again, we must give respect to our partner’s opinion. A relationship is happy when both of the couple feels that his or her partner values the other’s opinion.