NAME IT FIRST

Conversation Prep

The 'This Marriage Is in Trouble' Conversation Prep Sheet

One Page. Saying It Before It's Too Late to Say It.

Not the end of the conversation. The beginning of the one that matters.

This is for:

For the partner who has noticed something is wrong in the marriage and has not said it yet — not in crisis, but close enough to feel the distance.

You'll produce:your The This Marriage Is in Trouble Conversation Prep Sheet

The Name It First Experience

There is a sentence you have been holding. This prep sheet helps you say it — clearly, without blame, with a specific ask. One page. What you have noticed. What you want. What you are afraid of. What you are asking for. The output is not a therapy exercise. It is a conversation plan.

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 have you noticed — the specific thing that made you realize something is wrong?
  2. What do you want from this conversation — and what are you scared it will cost you to have it?
  3. What do you want to say — in plain words, without blame — that would name what you're actually experiencing?

Research basis

Gottman distance and isolation cascade research / Doherty discernment counseling model / Amato pre-divorce deliberation studies on early intervention impact

Choose your format.

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.

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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

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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.

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.

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