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'Til Business Do Us Part Can you handle working at home with your spouse? Our Homebased Psychology Expert, Azriela Jaffe, explains how homebased couples can work happily ever after.

Making love in the afternoons. Enjoying a leisurely cup ofcoffee together in the morning. Taking a moment for a brief hug oran "atta boy." Closing up shop at 4 p.m. so both mom anddad can watch 6-year-old Jane in her first dance recital. Shoppingtogether at Staples and saving money by sharing office supplies.These are the romantic images one can conjure up when thinkingabout couples working at home.

But an alternate reality can also be true: A fight the coupleengaged in the night before about an upcoming family get-togetherspills over to the breakfast table. There will be no refreshing andhealing break as each leaves for the office. They have to tackle abusiness project at 9 a.m.-together.

The trip to Staples doesn't go so well. She wants to spend$150 more than he does on business stationery and computersoftware. By the end of the shopping expedition, she's callinghim "cheap," and he's accusing her of beingirresponsible with money.