Being in love hurts your career?

I can understand only a small part of that. And that is only in the beginning of the relationship. But as a songwriter, a true songwriter, will dig deep down inside to write a sad song. They will pull old feelings to create it. I honestly cannot see how being in love hurts anyones career. I think like you do, I would think that it would have a positive effect.

tath depends on the person. if im in love. i can easily get confused. if somenone dosent love me back. i can get really angry and mayby stop making music( wich i am)

Well....I guess that depends..LOL. No..not really. I think that it can actually bring a little more motivation to someone when they are in love. I think that in the beginning of a relationship it can be hard to focus..lol...but after a while it evens out.

I don't think so. If you've a partner who understand what you need to do for your job, then is fine. There are writers who need time to be alone and in silent to create a book. And so might be in other jobs.

No for us it didn't affect how we work. Hubby works hard now because of me and of course his kids because he does love us a lot and would do almost anything for all three of us. Sure he does miss us a lot when he is at work but it just means he has something good to come home to at the end of the day and when its bad day he is so much happier to come home and see his little girl smile at him.

Depends on a person. Me, when I am heart broken, I could not focus on anything I do. Like one time, me and my husband broke up for like 2 months, I could do my business right and I didn't make good sales and I didn't do a good job picking clothes for my business.

I don't think it's being in love that hurts one's career, I think it is what they allow infatuation to do to them that hurts their career. My husband and I are united, and see the world for the reality that it was. Our love was never hearts, and butterflies, although we have our own romantic things that we do for eachother. Love does not change our careers. We compliment eachother, rather than consume eachother.

Isn't it weird to hear artists say that? I don't know how many musicians say they write their best stuff when they have just gotten out of a bad relationship. Like both of Adele's albums were written after breakups. I'd be thrilled to be in a good relationship, even if it were hurting my song writing.

If you were the type to get all moony eyed and spend your time gazing into space dreaming of your next date I can understand how it would hurt your career. Your boss would probably be somewhat miffed at your lack of productivity. I can't imagine how it would hurt otherwise. In fact, I think being in a stable relationship is probably a good thing from a work perspective. Less to worry about on the love front means more mental energy for work.

I wouldn't say that being in love hurts your career, but I think if you let the love take over your life then you might not be thinking about what is going to be the best for your job in the long term. If love is always in your head, then you're not going to be thinking about how you could improve in your job, but you're going to be thinking about the next time that you could see your partner, and that is not a good thing because of the fact that you need to put some kind of effort into your career to be able to get through it.

For me it's a different thing. My love gives me more inspiration. And even if our relationship is on the rocks- it gives me more courage to do things and make myself more productive.

No, I get more inspired. Being in love makes me feel lighter and happier. I think it depends on a person. You should not make your world revolve only around your partner. You should take sometime also to breathe and relax alone. Even being a mom, you always need to have a me-time. You need to take a break so you will not feel exhausted.

No my career is on my way. Love can not left any parts here. Because i am not with love :-)

I guess this will differ from couple to couple. Let's just say that not everyone in a relationship consider themselves to be happy so if you are in a relationship that's messed up. It might not hurt just your career, maybe your life gets dragged in to it as well.

no my work never suffered when I was working and my man is still working and he works must come first because that is his bread and butter.

its a different stroke for different folks. I think it may have hurt hers, but it won't hurt other's work to sustain a love relationship. many would even be inspired and not disheartened. I think it depends on a person. if you revolve your world on one person then all others will definitely suffer - family, friends will miss you, work will have to wait? but it should not be the case for us who are in love. We should be able to find love and career balanced and not one must be sacrificed.

The last time I was in love I wrote some of the best things that I have even written..it was like a total inspiration to me....not the opposite!

Oh so it was opposite for her but i do agree with you being in love made me feel better and are better with my work.. but then like what you have said i am not a song writer nor a singer what do i know?? lol But i have read that Adele's break up with the bf made her write those wonderful songs!

I assume that you mean the "being in love part" that makes you feel happy. Not the being in love part that makes you feel unhappy, insecure etc. I think in the first case people their work will improve (which will always be the case if you feel great) in the 2nd case I don't think much will be going on at the workingplace since you are way too busy with handling yourself/your feelings.

I think I understand how that could happen. Being in love can make you feel like you're constantly high. When you are twitterpated sometimes you might make mistakes you wouldn't normally make because you don't focus the same way as you do when you're grounded. Loving people like your parents or children is quite different from "being in love" with that special someone.