Separating Work and Family For all three couples, the battle to separate work and family life is unrelenting. To keep one from consuming the other, most have set up some kind of system for delineating business and home. Dana Jurak: "Our best decision about work versus privacy was to move the business into an office outside our home. People used to visit us for business reasons all the time. We'd greet the subs in our kitchen at 6 a.m. and meet with clients in our living room at 8 p.m. Consequently, we had to leave home to escape the business. Now it feels good to get home, put on shorts and a T-shirt, and not worry. It's also