Marriage Like a Business — and Why That’s a Good Thing

Marriage Inc: The Boardroom Blueprint to a Lasting Love by Dr. Robin Buckley

When Dr. Robin Buckley said she treats marriage like a business, I listened with both ears.
Because honestly — how many of us put more strategy into a marketing plan than we do into the person we plan to spend our life with?

In this week’s episode of The Scarlet Edit, I sat down with Dr. Robin Buckley — executive coach, psychologist, and author of Marriage Inc: The Boardroom Blueprint to a Lasting Love — to talk about how structure, clarity, and intentional check-ins can change everything about how we approach love.

Robin believes marriage works best when it has the same foundation as any successful partnership: vision, goals, accountability, and regular communication. We talk about why couples should hold “relationship business meetings,” create quarterly retreats, and schedule five-minute daily check-ins — and how doing so makes love more spontaneous, not less.

We also get into:
-The Ideal Companion Avatar — a framework for dating with clarity and intention
-Why “writing it down” matters — if it’s not on paper, it’s not real
-How money conversations can make or break emotional connection
-The difference between intimacy and sex — and how to check in about both
-Why logic and love can (and should) coexist

This conversation reframes love not as a gamble, but as a conscious choice — one we can actually design.

🎧 Listen to this week’s episode here!

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