Sharing the Love
What's it really like being married to an entrepreneur?
Ever since she met her husband, Junab Ali, Denise Ali has knownthat she would always be, in a sense, "the other woman.""We've known each other since we were 15," saysDenise, "and he's always talked about having his ownbusiness. When it finally happened, it wasn't a bigsurprise." Except for the timing: Their baby was 6 months oldin 2000, when Junab, now 32, quit his lucrative day job to startSan Antonio-based Mobius Partners, offering computer infrastructuresolutions to small businesses. Whenever Denise couldn't calmtheir crying baby, she knew the noise might be disturbing Junab,especially if he was on the phone--he was just down the hall in thespare bedroom/office.
Do entrepreneurs make good husbands or wives? It depends whomyou talk to, of course, but clearly, marriage to an entrepreneurcan be difficult.
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