Whether you direct a big corporation, or you own your own business or professional practice, or even if you're military brass or an elected official, you are a powerful man by society's standards. And that means you're in a position to know and do many important things, not the least of which is take care of your employees, the people who help you do your job. But, do you recognize and reward the person most important to your career -- your wife? In fact, do you really know your wife? the woman behind the powerful man?



While you run your business, she is busy running your children, your household and the family schedule (even if she has her own career). She also runs interference and makes excuses for you when you miss the children's school play or soccer games. These duties in her ?job description? are probably not a surprise to you. But are you aware of her duties in helping you with your career? How has she assisted you in your rise to the top?

Just as you provide benefits to your paid employees, you'll want to provide a special benefit to your closest and most loyal employee, your wife, who does so much to make life better for you and your entire family.

In the past you have given her many gifts, maybe jewelry, clothes, cars, houses. But here's a gift she may not even know she wants or needs: Give her a weekend retreat devoted to thinking about her own dreams, finding her own voice, and enhancing her self-esteem -? separate from you and the children.

As we enter the most popular gift-giving season, you'll want to know about Unique Retreats for Women specifically designed for The Wife of a Powerful Man. This innovative luxury will give your wife keys for overcoming obstacles, practical tools she can immediately put to use, clarity about her life choices, and answers to personal questions she may not even know she has.

Not only will your wife definitely benefit from the retreat, so will you. You benefit from her being a more equal partner, a more complete women with a greater sense of her self and her life. Having found her own voice, she'll no longer just be the woman ?behind? the man. This is a win-win holiday gift.

The men reading this will want to consider these wonderful packages for their wives. And the women will want to remind their husbands to sign them up.

Dr. Karen Gail Lewis, creator of UNIQUE RETREATS FOR WOMEN, has more than 36 years experience as a family therapist and a professor practicing in Cincinnati and the Washington, DC vicinity. She has a masters degree in social work and a doctorate in consulting psychology. A teacher at various universities around the country and in Chile, she has a private practice and lectures both nationally and internationally. She has authored several books and ebooks, including THE SECRET TO A SOLID MARRIAGE: Understanding Gender Differences, and STORIES FOR YOUR MARRIAGE: How to Deal with the Tough Times.