This
Relationship Thing
- For engaged couples, before the big day
Build the marriage, not just the wedding
Marriage Maker is our 10 day premarital course for couples who want to prepare before they need to repair. Join the waitlist and you will be first through the door when it opens in February.
Your email
- We will email you the moment the doors open, and a little before. No spam, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
- 10 days, one at a time
- Short daily videos
- Tools you keep for life
INSIDE THE COURSE
What is inside Marriage Maker?
Every day gives you a short video, a lesson, one exercise to do together, and a tool you keep. You move at your own pace, in your own home.
01
Know yourself
Map the story you each bring, and the triggers that come with it. Most of what you repeat, you learned before you could choose it.
You get: your own trigger map
- You check: which old reactions still run the show when you are stressed.
02
Understand each other
Learn how your partner actually works, not how you assume they do. Empathy is a skill you can build, not a mood you wait for.
You get: the repair sentence
- You check: what your partner needs from you when they are hurting.
03
Talk well
Build a way to talk about the hard things before they turn into a fight, including a signal you both agree on when one of you needs a pause.
You get: a weekly check in that sticks
- You check: the topics you tend to tiptoe around, and why.
04
Fight well
Every couple fights. Learn to repair, name what is off limits, and come back to each other faster, because escalation leads to devastation.
You get: a plan for fighting well
- You check: whether you chase or withdraw when things heat up.
05
Build the future
Design the life you are actually saying yes to: money, family, home and a shared picture of the next fifty years, not just the wedding day.
You get: your shared mission statement
- You decide: what you are building together, and who you each want to become.
THE YEAR BEFORE THE WEDDING
You still run your own marriage. You just stop starting from scratch.
Andrew and Melissa · married, and both clinical psychologists
“We had the training and we still nearly didn't make it. Our worst fights were never really about the dishes or the diary. What turned it around was learning to have the hard conversations on purpose, before they had us.”
- Without Marriage Maker
You keep booking suppliers and avoiding the real conversations, hoping the hard stuff sorts itself out once the wedding is behind you.
- With Marriage Maker
You have the conversations on purpose, one short day at a time, and walk into the wedding already knowing how you will handle what comes after it.
WHO IT IS FOR
Made for couples getting married soon
You have a date booked
You are somewhere between three and twelve months out, and you want to arrive ready, not just organised.
You are good, and want to stay that way
This is not crisis repair. It is for couples who are already strong and want to build something that lasts.
You would rather prepare than repair
You would rather have the honest conversations now, while there is hope and goodwill, than patch things up later.
Marriage Maker is educational, and it never replaces therapy. What you build together always stays your decision.
Ready when the doors open?
Five parts, ten days, one marriage built on purpose. Know yourself, understand each other, talk well, fight well, and build the future, together.
We will email you the moment Marriage Maker opens in February, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
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