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Breaking the Rerun
Why you keep having the same fight, and how to stop.
Most couples don't have a hundred fights. They have the same three or four on repeat, and every rerun has a script, roles and a payoff. Each episode follows one of three couples, gives the pattern a name they can say out loud mid-fight, and shows how to step out of it.
- 10 episodes, 1 h 37 min
- 82 vertical Shorts
- Free to watch on YouTube
Premieres
Who it's for
Newlyweds and young couples, roughly 22 to 35: dating seriously, living together, engaged, or in the first years of marriage. Suited to marriage-preparation programs, employee assistance and wellbeing libraries.
10 episodes, about 10 minutes each, plus a printable companion guide per episode. Each ends with a three-step practice for the week.
What people learn
- Who is really talking in an argument, and how one voice gets hooked by another.
- What "I'm fine" actually says, and how to find the grain of truth in a complaint.
- How a relationship starves for recognition, and how to ask for exactly what you need.
- Why the same fight runs on the same beats every time, why couples pick a fight right before closeness, and how to stop keeping receipts.
Episodes
- 01
You're Not Fighting About the Dishes
They've been married seven months and they're fighting about a pan. Except they're not.
- 02
"I'm Fine" Is the Most Dangerous Sentence in Your Relationship
Every word they said was true, and they still slept in separate rooms.
- 03
Your Relationship Is Starving
Sam turned down a compliment at dinner and picked a fight at midnight. Those are the same thing.
- 04
It's Not a Fight. It's a Game.
Eleven Sundays. Same words. Same ending.
- 05
The Helper, the Villain, and the Victim
He does everything. She's about to explode. By tomorrow they'll both have played all three parts.
- 06
Keeping Receipts
Twenty minutes late to a cake tasting turned into forty-one charges.
- 07
If It Weren't for You
For a year, her husband was the reason she didn't take London. Then he told her to go, and she couldn't open the form.
- 08
The Fight You Pick So You Don't Have to Get Close
Their first free Friday in a month ended in four minutes and two separate rooms, and both of them looked relieved.
- 09
The Quiet War
They never raised their voices, and they lost the photographer, the honeymoon and a week of their lives.
- 10
The Script You Signed Before You Met
Nine fights, three couples, one script: how childhood decisions write the fights you keep having.
The cast
- Maya and TheoMarried seven months; an ER nurse and a freelance sound designer
- Jordan and SamEngaged after three years; a project manager and a grad student
- Priya and MarcusMarried a year, with two close, loud families
With the series
- A printable companion guide for every episode
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