Happily Ever After, Starting Monday
The wedding was perfect. Then one of you expected Saturday pancakes and the other expected Saturday soccer.
Explore this module →The Marriage College · COURSE
The First Year
Nobody tells you that the hardest part of the wedding is the Monday after it.
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Couples in roughly their first year of marriage, of any genders, and couples who have just moved in together. Lessons address the student as “you” and the other person as “your partner”. Useful to one partner alone; better with both.
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LEVEL 1 · FREE
Newbie
Three free courses on the weeks after the wedding: the expectations you each brought, your first joint project and whose way is the right way to load a dishwasher.
The Thank-You Notes Are Still in the Car
A hundred and twenty cards, two spare air fryers and one car trunk: your first joint project, and how to finish it.
Explore this module →Your Way, My Way and the Dishwasher
You both grew up knowing the right way to load a dishwasher. Unfortunately, you grew up in different houses.
Explore this module →LEVEL 2
Apprentice
House rules nobody wrote down, the opening negotiation on chores and how to be alone together in a small apartment.
The House Rules Nobody Wrote Down
Shoes, guests, phones at dinner: the laws of your home, written down before someone breaks one in boots.
Explore this module →Chores: The Opening Negotiation
Whoever buys the dish soap twice buys it forever. Divide the housework on purpose, while it is still negotiable.
Explore this module →Alone Together in Six Hundred Square Feet
One desk, two jobs, one bathroom, and a laundry room visited for reasons that have nothing to do with laundry.
Explore this module →LEVEL 3
Practitioner
Your first real fight, which marriage advice survives contact with real life, and a weekly check-in that heads off the next one.
Your First Real Fight (Congratulations)
Your first proper argument will be about a lamb shoulder. It will not really be about the lamb shoulder.
Explore this module →Going to Bed Angry Is Allowed
Some marriage advice fits on a cushion. This course tests which of it survives 2:40 a.m. and a Great Dane.
Explore this module →The Weekly Check-In
Twenty minutes on Sunday, with snacks, that saves you the argument on Thursday. Slides strictly not required.
Explore this module →LEVEL 4
Specialist
In-laws in their new role, the first holiday season as a couple and keeping your friends on both sides of the wedding.
Meet the In-Laws, Again
Your partner’s mother has a key, a pot of soup and a firm view on where the olive oil lives.
Explore this module →The Holiday Custody Agreement
Two families, one December and a shared calendar that has cheerfully accepted both invitations.
Explore this module →Friends, Before and After
Your best friend is texting you world capitals. Your group chat has named your partner’s towel.
Explore this module →LEVEL 5
Expert
Joint, separate or both, a monthly money date and the unpaid department that remembers everyone’s birthday.
Joint, Separate or Yours-Mine-Ours
Four months married and still splitting a lemon to the cent. Choose a money system on purpose, before one chooses you.
Explore this module →The Money Date
A monthly meeting about money, with snacks, so nobody has to find out about a kayak from the delivery driver.
Explore this module →Who Remembers the Birthdays?
Someone in your house is running a Department of Remembering, unpaid. Find out who, and give them some staff.
Explore this module →LEVEL 6
Distinguished Fellow
Romance after the registry, intimacy discussed calmly in daylight and the big questions you thought were settled.
Romance After the Registry
A fondue set still in its ribbon, and how to keep courting someone you already share a bathroom with.
Explore this module →Expectations in the Bedroom, Calmly Discussed
Intimacy after the wedding, discussed warmly, in daylight, and not only with the ceiling fan.
Explore this module →The Big Questions You Thought Were Settled
Children, cities and a dog, all agreed on a napkin. Now for the details, which the napkin left out.
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Master
Staying on the same side when year one is hard, a first-anniversary review and the habits you take into year two.
When Year One Is Hard
A lost job, a broken hip, a sourdough starter called Kevin, and how to stay on the same side.
Explore this module →The First-Anniversary Review
A first-anniversary review with four rounds, one index card and, crucially, no section titled “Incidents.”
Explore this module →The Second Year Starts Tomorrow
A year of good habits reduced to one page, four rituals and a better question than “How was your day?”
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