Is work wrecking your love life?

So why has it happened? Sally admits she has spent the past five years putting her career first, ‘to the point where I’ve almost forgotten how to open up and get to know men on a personal level. I had one, eight-year relationship that went terribly wrong and my career has filled part of the void. But not all of it,’ she admits.

Like Sally, many of us are increasingly relying on work to fulfil our every need. A report by the Industrial Society indicates that barriers between work and home are crashing down and that ‘more and more people find love, friends and sense of community in their jobs.’ Yet work isn’t and shouldn’t be everything. If we’re coming home so late that we’re only fit to sink into a bath and blunder towards the bedroom, there’s something deeply amiss with our job descriptions, working methods or, more tellingly, our relationships.