Everyday Life Together

Your relationship is basically working, and you'd like to keep it that way.

This workbook is about ordinary weeks: noticing what makes each of you feel cared for, keeping affection in busy days, and splitting the housework and the remembering so both feel fair. It covers everyday money, hours that don't match, families, friends and social media, and the longer seasons, from a new baby to aging parents to a house that has gone quiet. Every chapter ends with a route for doing it on your own if your partner won't join in.

Inside you'll find:

• The four-part weekly check-in card
• The monthly money card: came in, went out, coming up, one decision
• A two-week noticing log, and a page for who owns which area of the home
• Scripts for raising an uneven split and asking for one specific thanks

There are 69 tools in all: 32 worksheets, 22 checklists and 15 scripts, collected again in the toolkit at the back.

Small, steady routines for two people sharing a life.

This is Book 5 of A Clarity4Couples Guide, eight books that follow a relationship from wanting one to the year after it ends. It's for reflection and general information, not therapy or professional advice.

Created with generative AI and edited by the author.