People often ask me how I can tolerate working and owning a business with my husband. I honestly don’t know how anyone could work with a business partner that is anyone other than their spouse!
I met my husband, Kevin, when I was a first-year dental student and he was in his third year. We became friends and started dating my second year. We learned right away that we both had different strengths when it came to dentistry. He would casually stick around the lab when I was struggling with waxing up a denture, and swoop in and save the day and show me his skills?. After many hours in the lab together, we bonded over dental cases, while jamming to Dido, Chris Isaak, Van Morrison, or Steely Dan. As we helped each other study for Pathology, Advanced Operative Dentistry, or Dental Materials, or whatever the weekly project or fire was that needed to be put out, we became very good friends. Over time, we found our love for each other, and for dentistry, was mutual.
After getting married and working separate residences and jobs, we both decided to move back to my home town and take over a private dental practice together. In the beginning, there were some challenges because we were balancing a new baby and office. As our kids have grown older, we have cherished both the ability to keep our work a part of the family and the flexibility that allows us to keep our family as our first priority. There are seldom times when we need to give each other space. We both have found our groove with our personal strengths clinically and business-wise. We are usually both so busy doing our own thing at work, that we sometimes come home and still have to ask, “How was your day?”
Kevin and I have found a way to separate work and home as much as we can. We try to only let it overlap if it’s beneficial, even though there are many times when that is impossible. It’s a family run shop, so we try to remain colleagues at work and mom and dad at home. There have been times when we have to discuss something going on from work at home and the kids will beg us to not talk about it in front of them. I think it stresses them out some times. There are times at work when I have to ask my husband to pick up the kids from school and get them to hockey practice because my endo is taking longer than I expected.
I love working with my husband. He is my partner, my mentor and my best friend. I trust and know we will work together to do what’s best for not only our office, but for our family. And I’m still happy to let him help me with my lab work and show me he’s still got the skills that impressed me over twenty years ago.
Kami L. Marr D.D.S.
Marr Family Dentistry, P.C.
Greeley, Colorado
www.marrfamilydentistry.com
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