The book behind the habit loop I keep referencing. Cue, routine, reward. Once you see it, you cannot stop noticing it in your own house.

Decades of real research into what separates the couples who last from the couples who do not. It turns out not to be about never fighting. It is about how you repair afterward.

Attachment theory without the textbook language, for anyone who has ever needed constant reassurance, or needed the opposite. Useful information to have before the first real fight about it.

A conversation between a student and a philosopher, and the best argument I have found for why you do not owe anyone an explanation for your guest list. How someone else feels about your choices belongs to them.

Most cookbooks assume you are cooking for four and freezing the rest. This one assumes there are two of you, and the cocktail section may be the real find.

A book about dividing household labour, with a literal deck of cards for working out who owns what. The bigger idea is the mental load, and how to name the invisible stuff before the argument becomes about something else.

What stress actually does in your body, and why powering through does not work the way we think it should. A good companion to The Power of Habit, because both explain the mechanism instead of handing you a list of things you are doing wrong.