<p>What does a trailing partner mean? The term was first used in the Wall Street Journal in 1981, describing a person who follows his or her partner to another city or country on a work assignment. Is a trailing partner always a non-working, dependent? Is the term directly related to one’s ability to earn? Or just the degree of control they exercise over their own fate/lives/mobility? This episode is a conversation between two 'trailing partners' discussing what the term means for them.</p>

The happy trailing partner

Ever wondered what a trailing partner is? Neither did I, till I became one. In 2018, my family and I moved to China from the UK, and I became a trailing partner. Two years on, I have a better handle on what it means to be one, and it’s not all day time drinking, beauty treatments, and dinner parties. Join me, as I speak to women and some men, from all walks of life, and all over the world, discussing their journey of becoming trailing partners, and what it means for them.