The Marriage College · THE LEARNING PATH
Everyday Partnership
Practical, funny lessons for a life together: communication, sharing the load, connection and the long game.
For couples and anyone building a thoughtful partnership.
21 modules · 105 lessons · One payment. No subscription.
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21 modules
LEVEL 01 / The Marriage College
Newbie
Ask for what you want in one plain sentence, and retire the three-week campaign of clues. On the difference between starting the laundry and doing the laundry, which is about three days. What “Mm” costs you over a year, and how to look up before the invitations stop.
Start here · all three modules free · 3 modulesThe Hint Is Not a Language
Ask for what you want in one plain sentence, and retire the three-week campaign of clues.
Start learning at the college ↗Done Means Done
On the difference between starting the laundry and doing the laundry, which is about three days.
Start learning at the college ↗Come and Look at This
What “Mm” costs you over a year, and how to look up before the invitations stop.
Start learning at the college ↗LEVEL 02 / The Marriage College
Apprentice
For the one who carries the list in their head, and the one who keeps asking how to help. For people who re-fold the towels, and the people whose towels get re-folded. For anyone keeping count in their head, and anyone who suspects they are being counted.
Unlock after completing Newbie · 3 modulesThe Invisible List
For the one who carries the list in their head, and the one who keeps asking how to help.
Explore this module at the college ↗More Than One Way to Fold a Towel
For people who re-fold the towels, and the people whose towels get re-folded.
Explore this module at the college ↗The Secret Scoreboard
For anyone keeping count in their head, and anyone who suspects they are being counted.
Explore this module at the college ↗LEVEL 03 / The Marriage College
Practitioner
Hearing about a bad day without issuing three solutions and a spreadsheet. A complaint that is still about the same thing four minutes later. The whole apology, with no “if,” no “but” and no supporting documents.
Unlock after completing Apprentice · 3 modulesListening Without a Toolbox
Hearing about a bad day without issuing three solutions and a spreadsheet.
Explore this module at the college ↗The First Three Sentences
A complaint that is still about the same thing four minutes later.
Explore this module at the college ↗Sorry, Without the Footnotes
The whole apology, with no “if,” no “but” and no supporting documents.
Explore this module at the college ↗LEVEL 04 / The Marriage College
Specialist
How to go out for the evening without bringing the house along. Keep your friends, your hobby and your Saturday, and tell your partner before you tell the chat. The kind things you say about your partner, finally said to your partner.
Unlock after completing Practitioner · 3 modulesDate Night Is Not a Meeting
How to go out for the evening without bringing the house along.
Explore this module at the college ↗Friends, Hobbies and the Group Chat
Keep your friends, your hobby and your Saturday, and tell your partner before you tell the chat.
Explore this module at the college ↗Thank You, Out Loud
The kind things you say about your partner, finally said to your partner.
Explore this module at the college ↗LEVEL 05 / The Marriage College
Expert
Asking out loud, hearing “not tonight” with grace, and retiring the signals nobody ever received. A dinner party at which your partner’s story is allowed to reach the end. An argument about the thermostat that stays, from start to finish, about the thermostat.
Unlock after completing Specialist · 3 modulesBedroom Diplomacy
Asking out loud, hearing “not tonight” with grace, and retiring the signals nobody ever received.
Explore this module at the college ↗The Eye-Roll and Other Small Weapons
A dinner party at which your partner’s story is allowed to reach the end.
Explore this module at the college ↗Disagree Without a Courtroom
An argument about the thermostat that stays, from start to finish, about the thermostat.
Explore this module at the college ↗LEVEL 06 / The Marriage College
Distinguished Fellow
Twenty minutes a month, the real numbers, and nobody rounding down. Who the school calls, whose job bends, and who decided. Usually it was a form. Both families are welcome. Neither of them lives here.
Unlock after completing Expert · 3 modulesMoney Talks
Twenty minutes a month, the real numbers, and nobody rounding down.
Explore this module at the college ↗Whose Turn Is It?
Who the school calls, whose job bends, and who decided. Usually it was a form.
Explore this module at the college ↗Two Families, One Front Door
Both families are welcome. Neither of them lives here.
Explore this module at the college ↗LEVEL 07 / The Marriage College
Master
What to say when there is nothing to say, and who to call when two of you is not enough. How to end an argument before it ends the evening, and what to do about the toast. For anyone who knows their partner’s order by heart and has not checked since the honeymoon.
Unlock after completing Distinguished Fellow · 3 modulesWhen Life Gets Heavy
What to say when there is nothing to say, and who to call when two of you is not enough.
Explore this module at the college ↗The Art of Repair
How to end an argument before it ends the evening, and what to do about the toast.
Explore this module at the college ↗The Long Game
For anyone who knows their partner’s order by heart and has not checked since the honeymoon.
Explore this module at the college ↗Ready for the full curriculum?
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