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Resentment to Relief in 60 Minutes.

You're tired of being the one who remembers. Put everything you carry on the table, next to everything your partner carries. See it side by side. Then move one thing off your plate.

A free guided conversation for couples. Start on your own today. Invite your partner when you're ready.

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Here's how.

How it works

You know this feeling.

You do so much, and nobody sees it.

You try to talk about it. It turns into a fight.

So you stop talking, and keep score in silence.

This isn't therapy. It isn't another list.

It's a conversation built so it doesn't turn into a fight.

  • You start face to face. A minute of breathing together, in sync, before anyone says a word.
  • You answer alone first, so nobody gets talked over.
  • One reads, one listens. No interrupting, no explaining, no fixing yet. You get your turn.
  • Old arguments wait. This is about what each of you carries, not who let who down.
  • Numbers come last, after you've both been heard. And it ends with a thank-you, not a verdict.

How it works

Short videos and a breathing practice walk you through it, one step at a time.

1. Answer alone.

For 17 parts of home life, you each say how much of it you notice, manage and do. Your partner doesn't see your answers yet.

The app asking one partner for their share of food and meals: noticed, managed, did.

2. Hear it out loud.

Your partner reads your words back to you before anyone sees a number. You just listen.

One partner reading the other partner’s lines out loud.

3. See where the work is hiding.

You both think you do more. Here you see where, and why you're both telling the truth.

Where the mental load is hiding: jobs where the two shares add up to more than 100%.

4. Say thank you, and lighten the load.

You thank each other for something you didn't know the other did. Then you each take one small thing off the other's plate this week.

Each partner picks one small thing to take off the other’s plate.

What changes

  • You see the work nobody could see. Not just the chores, but the noticing and the managing too.
  • You both get heard.
  • Resentment turns into real thanks.
  • You each have one less thing to carry this week.

How to ask your partner

You don't need a big talk to start this one. Try:

“I found something for us. It's not about who does more. It's a short, guided talk for the two of us. Will you do it with me this weekend?”

Or just send them this page.

“But…”

“My partner won't do it.”
Nobody gets ambushed. You each answer alone first, in your own words.

“It'll turn into a fight.”
That's why you listen before anyone sees a number.

“We tried a list.”
A list turns into evidence. This doesn't.

“We're too busy.”
You've already spent more time than this on the fight.

Built on research

  • When partners guess their share of the work, the answers add up to more than 100%. (Ross & Sicoly, 1979)
  • The noticing and the keeping track often land on one person. (Daminger, 2019)
  • Feeling thanked makes an uneven split hurt less. (Gordon et al., 2022)

Why I built this

I'm Eric. I'm a coach, a husband, and a dad of two. This talk kept turning into a fight, so I built a better way to have it.

You don't need another project. You need one conversation to get back on the same team.

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