Working with my wife

My wife is a member of CAMOMC  (Capitol Area Mothers of Multiples Club), which is a group for moms with twins, triplets, quads, etc. They were looking for someone to take over management of their website and to make it prettier. My wife thought this would be a good way for us to do something together and took over the site.

She asked me to build the site from the ground up and said that she just wanted a simple site, nothing special. She kept saying that we needed to get it started so it could be up and running in April, but never initiated the start, I assumed she was going to sit down with me and give me direction on what she wanted for her new website, so I waited. After a few weeks she finally came to me and asked if I was ever going to get started because it had to be done in two days, I didn’t realize we had an actual deadline, and I told her I had been waiting for her so we could get started.

After a bit of heated debate over who was at fault I got started, alone, I never really looked at the original site to see what needed to be transferred over. It was a lot for just being a simple site, I spent quite a few hours transferring over all the meeting notes, contact info, and everything else I thought would be useful.  Finally I completed it on the final day just to have her critique everything for the next two days and have me change things that she didn’t like. If she just would have worked with me to begin with, it would have been easier and maybe I would have felt at least a little appreciated rather than like a whipping boy doing her bidding. Business is business and personal is personal, it is never a good idea to mix the two.