Relationship Resources
Education, support, and research you can trust.
Relationship Education
Research that works. Not advice columns.
Prepare/Enrich
500,000 couples researched. Predicts relationship outcomes with 80-85% accuracy. Assessment plus facilitator-guided sessions. The closest thing to a structural diagnostic that exists.
Gottman Institute
40 years of longitudinal research. The Four Horsemen framework (criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling) is now common vocabulary. Workshops, courses, and certification.
Love Is Respect
National resource for young people navigating relationships. Education on healthy relationships, warning signs, and support. Text, chat, or call.
Community Alternatives to Apps
Meeting people through people, not through algorithms.
Cerca
Mutual connections only. You can only match with someone who shares a real-life friend. 60% women, which tells you something about what women actually want from this. The closest app to what a grandmother would do.
Thursday
Dating app that only works on Thursdays, pushing people to meet in person at real events. The constraint is the feature.
Books
Read before you swipe.
The Grand Matriarchy Relationship
Finding, Building, and Keeping the Bonds That Last. The structural argument for why the dating market fails and the matriarchy works. By Martin Vendemia.
Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson
Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples. How attachment patterns from childhood shape adult partnerships and what to do about it.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman
Four decades of research distilled into practical tools. The research foundation behind most modern relationship education.
Crisis Support
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-7233
24/7. Confidential. Free. Call, text, or chat at thehotline.org.
If you are in danger right now, call 911.
Talk to Daisy about what you are looking for.
She listens first. She asks the questions nobody else will. She is not a matchmaker. She is a grandmother.
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