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The Couples Retreat Companion
The Work to Do Together at the Retreat — And the Work to Do After
The retreat is the investment. This is how you protect it.
For the couples attending or planning a couples retreat — investing in an intentional weekend or program together — who want the work they do there to carry into the life they return to.
The Name It First Experience
Couples retreats produce real moments: clarity, reconnection, conversations that feel essential in the room. They also produce commitments that feel urgent when you are there and negotiable by the following weekend. This companion gives the retreat a before and an after: preparation that helps you arrive knowing what you need, a structure for capturing insights while they are live, and an accountability plan that keeps the most important commitments in motion. The output is not a record of the retreat. It is The Couples Retreat Companion Agreement.
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 has gotten in the way of previous moments of clarity or connection lasting?
- What do you want more of with the person you're building this with — and what do you need less of?
- What would you need to leave this retreat with to call it worth it?
- What would you most like the person you're building this with to understand about you after this time together?
Research basis
Gottman relationship maintenance research / retreat follow-through effectiveness studies / implementation intention research (Gollwitzer) / behavior change and structured follow-up
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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
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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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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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