[ChuckMcM]

Does your wife work? Do you have kids? Over the years my wife and I have gone back and forth on time splits. It doesn't help that I happen to be more of a night owl and she is more of an early riser, which means our natural tendencies tend to cut both ends of the day off from interaction.

The best thing that has worked for us is to communicate goals, so if I'm trying to get "X" done we'll work schedules to get time to work on it, and then if she is trying to get "Y" done we'll do the same for her. When we're doing "Z" which is high priority for both of us we we're just splitting up things to work on and doing them and time issues don't seem to pop up.

The key for us is that we're very supportive of each others goals, and when planned together we are both committed to making things successful. Problems arise when one of us goes heads down in some project and shuts the other out, leaving them to keep things going while the other gets their project done. That doesn't feel good to the person shut out. Things get dicey and we've got to recognize that something that should have been 'short and sweet' is taking way more time.