What if We Treated Our Relationships With Employers Like Marriage?

No, not like that, hear me out…

Evan Wildstein
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5 min readFeb 1, 2022

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I was talking recently with a newly engaged friend. She and her fiancé are preparing for all the wildness of wedding planning, including something called pre-cana.

“Pre-what,” I asked?

The short answer was, essentially, pre-marriage counseling for Christian couples.

Spouses-to-be meet with religious leaders (like priests or deacons) and other already-married people to learn “how it is” on the other side of a wedding. The topics range from finances to intimacy to conflict resolution and even careers — all the stuff couples should discuss before entering into a pretty serious, typically life-long arrangement.

How interesting, I thought.

Before we were waxing about weddings, we were having a hearty chat about starting new jobs — we both recently had — and how convoluted the process often is, especially in our nonprofit sector.

As she was enlightening me about pre-cana, I wondered: “Wouldn’t it be interesting if companies had organizational pre-cana with new employees?”

With a divorce rate (in the U.S.) hovering between 40–50% and millions of people divorcing their jobs every month, thinking about…

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