The Newlywed Year Sets a Marriage Foundation for Years to Come
Your first year of marriage is filled with hundreds of little firsts, decisions, discoveries and traditions. The Newlywed Year™ walks with you for 48 weeks — helping you understand each other better, talk about what matters, create your own way of doing married life, and build the kind of marriage you want to carry into every year that follows.
The first year shapes everything that follows — let's use it on purpose. 48 weeks · Less than 30 minutes a week · Personalized to the two of you · One year to build something beautiful together
— Your Guide Team
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Identify your personal PACE style and your spouse's, and use the gap between them as a strength rather than a source of friction.
- Build a shared 'operating system' for money, household roles, and calendars drawn from two different families of origin.
- Recognize the real conflict beneath the surface argument and exit heated moments with a reliable repair toolkit.
- Cultivate daily connection habits — appreciation, turning toward, intentional touch — that keep emotional closeness from quietly eroding.
- Navigate in-laws, holidays, and competing loyalties with agreed-upon boundaries that protect the marriage first.
- Design a shared five-year vision, a set of home traditions, and a clear statement of what your marriage stands for — before life decides for you.
How it works
A marriage course that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 57 lessons
Intake & Your Starting Map
Establishes each spouse's individual profile — language, background, PACE style, family of origin patterns, and honest first-year snapshot — before the 48-week journey begins.
- 1.1Language & Couple BasicsIncluded
- 1.2Relationship History & Family ContextIncluded
- 1.3Faith & What It Means to YouIncluded
- 1.4Your PACE ProfileIncluded
- 1.5Family of Origin, Newlywed Life Now & My PartIncluded
Your Initial Guide
Delivers each couple's personalized 6–8-page guide — strengths, dual PACE profiles, three founding decisions, four daily practices, and a prayer or reflection to begin well.
- 2.1Strengths & How You FitIncluded
- 2.2Building 'Our Way' from Two FamiliesIncluded
- 2.3Your Three Founding DecisionsIncluded
- 2.4Four Daily Practices & Opening PrayerIncluded
Q1 — Settling In (Weeks 1–12)
Builds the practical operating system of your marriage — expectations, household rules, calendars, roles, chores, and money — in the first quarter before unspoken assumptions harden into resentment.
- 3.1Nobody Warned You About ThisIncluded
- 3.2ExpectationsIncluded
- 3.3The Invisible Rule BookIncluded
- 3.4Whose Way Is Right?Included
- 3.5Two Calendars, One LifeIncluded
- 3.6The Sunday FifteenIncluded
- 3.7Who Does WhatIncluded
- 3.8Invisible WorkIncluded
- 3.9Your Money StoryIncluded
- 3.10Money StructureIncluded
- 3.11What We Can't Afford YetIncluded
- 3.12Q1 ReviewIncluded
Q2 — When It Gets Hard (Weeks 13–24)
Gives you a reliable conflict toolkit — how arguments start, what they are really about, how to exit and repair, and how to draw boundaries with family and in-laws without breaking the peace.
- 4.1The First Three MinutesIncluded
- 4.2The Fight Under the FightIncluded
- 4.3AngerIncluded
- 4.4Had Enough for NowIncluded
- 4.5The Twenty-Minute BreakIncluded
- 4.6RepairIncluded
- 4.7ApologyIncluded
- 4.8Permanent DifferencesIncluded
- 4.9Respectful ToneIncluded
- 4.10Parents & UsIncluded
- 4.11HolidaysIncluded
- 4.12Your Conflict AgreementsIncluded
Q3 — Staying Close (Weeks 25–36)
Protects emotional and physical intimacy by building daily connection habits, deepening your knowledge of each other, and bringing faith, affection, and honest conversation about sex into your regular life.
- 5.1Married and LonelyIncluded
- 5.2Turning TowardIncluded
- 5.3Know Each OtherIncluded
- 5.4PlayIncluded
- 5.5ScreensIncluded
- 5.6AppreciationIncluded
- 5.7Who Initiates, Who Warms UpIncluded
- 5.8Talk About SexIncluded
- 5.9AffectionIncluded
- 5.10Heart and MindIncluded
- 5.11Faith at HomeIncluded
- 5.12Q3 ReviewIncluded
Q4 — What We're Building (Weeks 37–48)
Lifts your gaze from daily survival to long-term vision — who you are as a couple, how you face the world, and what your marriage will stand for in five years and beyond.
- 6.1Our Identity as a CoupleIncluded
- 6.2FriendsIncluded
- 6.3CareersIncluded
- 6.4Life PressureIncluded
- 6.5CommitmentsIncluded
- 6.6Hard SeasonsIncluded
- 6.7Big DecisionsIncluded
- 6.8What Our Home Stands ForIncluded
- 6.9Facing OutwardIncluded
- 6.10Our Five-Year VisionIncluded
- 6.11TraditionsIncluded
- 6.12Year-One ReviewIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The intentional bride
She's read the books and done the planning — now she wants a structured, week-by-week plan to actually build the marriage, not just hope for the best.
The willing but unsure groom
He's committed and loves his partner deeply, but nobody ever taught him what a healthy marriage actually looks like in practice — and he's ready to learn.
The faith-rooted newlywed
Faith is central to her life and her marriage, and she wants a program that takes that seriously without ignoring the practical, sometimes messy work of year one.
The conflict-avoidant partner
He shuts down when things get tense, and he knows it — the conflict and repair tools are exactly what he needs before the first real fight does lasting damage.
The long engagement refresh
They dated for six years. It's three months past the wedding and they want to build real foundations — not just keep living like a continued long engagement..
The first-year course-corrector
They're six months in, something feels harder than expected, and she wants a structured way to reset and build better habits before patterns get entrenched.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Your Guide Team
We want to talk to you honestly for a minute, as a couple who have spent a long time sitting with couples in their first year.
Here's what we've seen over and over: two good people, who genuinely love each other, walking into marriage with completely different invisible rule books — about money, about who does what, about how conflict is supposed to go, about what a Sunday morning looks like. Neither of them wrote those rules. They absorbed them growing up, in homes that felt normal to them. And then they build one home together, and suddenly two sets of "normal" are in the same kitchen, the same bank account, the same bed.
Most couples don't talk about any of this until something breaks. That's not a character flaw — it's just how it usually goes. Nobody teaches you to have the money conversation before you need it, or to understand your spouse's conflict style before the first real fight, or to build daily connection habits before the distance quietly sets in. And by the time couples realize they need those things, they're already managing damage rather than building something.
That's exactly why we built The Newlywed Year the way we did. Not as a retreat you attend once and forget. Not as a book you read together and mostly agree with. A structured, week-by-week program that puts the right conversation in front of you at the right time — before it becomes urgent. Conflict tools before power struggles gets hard. Connection habits before the loneliness sneaks up on you. A shared vision before life fills the space with its own agenda.
We also built it so that each of you works individually first. That matters more than it might sound. When you answer separately — about your family of origin, your money story, your PACE style, your expectations — you discover things you didn't know you believed. And then you bring those discoveries to each other. That's where real understanding happens.
If you're engaged, or newly married, or a few months in and already feeling the friction — this program was made for exactly where you are right now. The first year is the most important year. We'd love to help you make it count.
— Your Guide Team
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