Level 1Warm-Up
The Funny Part
What happened at your work this month that I'd actually find funny, not impressive?
our stage is
Ships Passing
Dual careers, calendar life.
We're Ships Passing. Two competent adults, two full calendars, one shared doorway. We text like colleagues who respect each other, which is genuinely nice and also not what we signed up for.
The tell isn't fighting — we don't really fight. It's that our last real conversation happened in a car, and one of us was merging. We've optimized everything except the part where we actually catch up on each other.
This stage is easy to underestimate because it looks fine from the outside. It is fine. It's also thinner than it used to be, and thin is the thing that sneaks up on people.
What the deck brings to this stage
- A standing twenty minutes that isn't scheduled around anyone else's needs
- Questions that get past "how was your day" on the first try
- A way to be curious about each other again without it feeling like a performance review
Three cards from this edition
open when the laptops are finally shut ✎
- Level 1 · Warm-Up
- Level 2 · Rediscovery
- Level 3 · Repair
- Level 4 · Spark
Level 2Rediscovery
Unsent Thoughts
What's something you've been thinking about lately that hasn't made it into a conversation yet?
Level 4Spark
The Standing Night
If we blocked one recurring night on the calendar, what would we want to protect it for?
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The Deck
$27
The whole system, printed at our kitchen table.
- 52 cards across 4 levels
- 8 system cards, including the No-Logistics Rule, the Bail Card and the 20-Minute Protocol
- 12-week fridge tracker
- Print-ready PDF plus phone "Couch Mode"
Most couples pick this
The Date Night System
$47
For the nights we want more than a warm-up round.
- Everything in The Deck
- Deep Cuts expansion: 24 deeper Repair and Spark cards
- 8 Date-Night-in-an-Envelope kits
The Second Honeymoon Kit
$87
A year of us, planned in advance so we don't have to.
- Everything in The Date Night System
- 12-Month Calendar mini-decks
- The Anniversary Interview
- Your next stage edition, free when it lands
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