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The 5 Stages of Modern Dating
Feeling lost in love? Use this framework to cut through the noise and start rewriting your story.
Last week, I was assembling a high chair for my daughter Freya.
Everything was going smoothly… until I got to the footrest.
The clips weren’t lining up. The angle was wrong.
The manual was useless — worse than IKEA.
Frustrated, I turned to Google and found other angry parents leaving 1-star reviews about the exact same issue.
I was seconds away from drilling new holes when my wife asked:
“Are you sure the legs aren’t upside down?”
I paused, checked… and technically, they weren’t.
But her question made me reassess.
Turns out the legs were installed back-to-front.
One quick fix, and everything clicked into place.
It got me thinking: how often do we do the same thing in dating?
The problem isn’t always the effort. It’s often a lack of foundations and doing things in the wrong order.
I coach a lot of people who are doing their best in love.
