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.

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Nikki Corbett

About the Author

Nikki Corbett is the host and creator of The Scarlet Edit, a podcast about infidelity, divorce, and starting over. She was the other woman for five years and writes from inside the experiences most people only talk about from the outside. Nikki is a coach working with women rebuilding self-worth after affairs, divorce, and toxic relationships, and she speaks on modern relationships, the other woman experience, and choosing yourself without apology.

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