Here's How Relationship Contracts Can Help Couples

Life Kit

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Despite its legal-sounding moniker, a relationship contract isn't a binding agreement. Rather, it's a tool for couples to express their needs and work together to craft the parameters of their own unique relationship roadmap: including anything and everything from health and housework, to sex and intimacy.

Writer Mandy Len Catron says crafting a relationship contract is a powerful exercise that "steers couples away from those problematic, passive notions of romance and toward agency and thoughtfulness in our love lives."

In this Life Kit episode, Catron shares her tips and takeaways for creating a useful relationship contract.

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0:00.0	This is NPR's life kit.
0:01.5	How are you going to do this?
0:03.0	You can just do it like that.
0:04.0	I know it's a little bit awkward, but is that okay?
0:07.3	Sure.
0:08.1	I mean, we can try it this way.
0:09.1	I'm just listening.
0:10.0	I just want to hear how this set, how it sounds.
0:13.1	What are we going to do tonight?
0:14.2	Tonight.
0:15.8	We're going to revise and edit our love contract
0:22.2	and record ourselves doing it.
0:23.7	I'm Andy Tagle, one of the producers of this show.
0:26.2	And that was my partner, I'm Jess.
0:28.3	You can use the same process.
0:29.6	You put all the forks together, you put all the spoons together,
0:31.7	you put all the cups together.
0:33.1	You just don't like it.
0:33.9	It's fun.
0:34.4	You don't have to, I don't need a story.
0:36.1	Like you just don't like it.
0:37.1	On a second note, I don't understand the point
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