Short spoken reflection by Chris Collins on treating a romantic partnership as a collaborative 'power' that increases productivity and well-being. He emphasizes setting mutual goals, planning finances (e.g., for trips), avoiding surprises through explicit agreements, and regularly reviewing formalized plans.
You have to look at yourself as a power. Like, the outcome of this union is that we're both better. We're. We produce more, we do more as an outcome of the way we treat each other, the way we communicate, and the way we function, not leaving it to chance. And so now every one of those goals, you have to, like, let's say you have a goal that you want to take a trip. Well, okay, that trip is going to cost this much. Now, how are we going to come up with that? And so there really aren't any surprises at the end of the day. And then we. We formalize it, and then we look at it all the time. Like, sometimes I put it on my mirror where I shave every day.
