For her part, the workaholic Erica late in life rounds herself out by dabbling in art.
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One version is the workaholic who is physically on vacation but mentally still at work.
"The workaholic is on the ski slopes dreaming about getting back to work, " says Robinson.
"I was in the workaholic mode of, 'I don't have time to be more sociable, ' " he says.
Plus, emotionally, it can cause resentment, as people feel like the workaholic is raising the bar of how much work is acceptable, he adds.
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"She's the most nontraditional auto person around, " said Marchionne, the workaholic boss who lured her away from Volkswagen last year after a long career at Ford Motor.
In the end, though, "There's often only so much the spouse can do, and there comes a point at which it's up to the workaholic to make the change, " says Robinson.
And if there is one man who might be able to impose some order in Colombia, it is the workaholic Uribe - a man characterised by iron discipline (he is up at five doing yoga every morning) and an obsessive sense of duty.
In any event, it seems clear that the famous workaholic will have more time for golf in future.
At one time in life, it might work for the spouse of a workaholic, but if that changes, it's important to talk about it.
"The secret contract is, I can be a workaholic at home and he won't interfere, " she told the San Francisco Chronicle in 1990.
On average, couples in which one partner is a workaholic divorce at twice the average rate, according to a 1999 study conducted by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Bryan Robinson.
The author of 25 books on psychology and family, Dr. Robinson, professor emeritus at University of North Carolina at Charlotte estimates that about one-quarter of the population could be classified as workaholic, though it comes in varying degrees.
Jobs was a workaholic obsessed with every screw inside the computer, how the customers experienced the product packing and every element in the marketing of the product.
Shakespeare's image of the king has certainly been altered but to workaholic, rather than villain.
Although he was president during an era that is perennially retro cool (1963 to 1969), the man himself was known as a consummate politician and something of a workaholic.
In his later years O'Quinn, childless, unmarried, workaholic and recovering alcoholic, found solace in building one of the world's finest collections of automobiles--Dusenbergs, Bugattis, even the original Popemobile, a 1975 Ford Escort once owned by Karol Wojtyla before he became Pope John Paul II.
For example, many companies depend on large cadres of workaholic professionals and middle managers who put in long hours, are available around the clock, and are willing to sacrifice family and personal time for business activities.
The hotel was the setting for 1998's "How Stella Got Her Groove Back, " starring Angela Bassett as workaholic divorcee Stella Payne, Taye Diggs as much-younger love interest Winston Shakespeare and Whoopi Goldberg as sidekick Delilah Abraham.
It was the act of restoring a wrecked house in Connecticut with her ex-husband Andy that steered Ms Stewart, a workaholic fuelled by ambition and chronic insomnia, towards homemaking as a career.
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