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The Agreements Book

A Workbook of Signed Commitments for Your Partnership

Conversations happen. Agreements need a home.

This is for:

For the couple who has done the work and wants a single, signed repository for every agreement their partnership runs on.

You'll produce:your Master Agreement

The Name It First Experience

You have done the work and named the things. Now put them somewhere findable. This is the home for every commitment your partnership has produced — full text, date, both signatures. You produce the Master Agreement: a single signed document holding every governing commitment of your partnership. The output is not bureaucracy. It is a record.

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

  1. What argument happens in your partnership again and again — the same trigger, the same pattern, never fully resolved?
  2. What assumption are you both operating inside that you've never actually confirmed with each other?
  3. If you had a single place where every agreement you've reached was written and signed, what would be the first thing you'd put in it?

Research basis

Gottman (Sound Relationship House) / contract theory (explicit agreements) / relationship governance research

Choose your format.

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.

$12.99

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.

$5.99

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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Everything packages

The Paperback Everything Package

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The Hardcover Everything Package

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The Premium Hardcover Everything Package

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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.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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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