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For Intercultural + Interfaith Partners
A Relationship Workbook for Navigating Tradition, Identity, and the Families Who Raised You
You're in a relationship not just with each other, but with everything that made you.
For partners from different cultural, ethnic, or faith backgrounds who want to name how tradition, obligation, and identity live in the partnership they are building.
The Name It First Experience
When two people come from different backgrounds, the invisible load doubles. What does Sunday look like? Whose holidays get celebrated? What language do the children learn? How much of your family's expectations can you reasonably carry into this partnership without carrying them at the expense of what you're building? For Intercultural and Interfaith Partners is a structured working process for naming those differences before they become fault lines. You'll work through the traditions, obligations, identities, and values you each bring — and build specific agreements for how they live in the relationship you're creating. The output is The Intercultural Partnership Charter: a named document that holds both of your worlds.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What is one tradition, obligation, or expectation you carry from the people who raised you that you have never fully explained to your partner — and what would they need to understand about why it matters?
- Where have the two of you already disagreed without either of you understanding that you were each following different rules?
- What is one practice, observance, or value that must live in what you are building together — and what does it need to look like for it to count?
Research basis
Sue & Sue (multicultural counseling) / Falicov (cross-cultural family therapy) / Gottman (Sound Relationship House, cultural adaptation)
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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
Print Paperbackpersonalize
A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
$19.99
eBook + journal
The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Hardcoverpersonalize
The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$9.99
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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Choose your pace.
The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
Full depth
Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
Partner Pair
Built for two. You each work your own copy, on your own time — then you bring them together and compare, one answer at a time.
The comparison is the conversation.
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