What is Fair Play?
Fair Play
Fair Play is a time-and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities.
In far less time than you spend checking social media in a day, you will learn a new system for domestic life that borrows from proven organizational management principles that does not ask you to necessarily do more but instead to consider how to do things differently. (And by optimizing efficiency, you may actually do less.)
Creating Relationship Satisfaction
Why should we care about this?
Research on relationship satisfaction consistently shows:
More Satisified
Individuals who perceive an equitable division of housework in their romantic relationships are more satisfied with their relationships, overall, than those who find their relationships inequitable.
Less Distressed
Happier
When both members of a couple agree that household labor should be divided equally, they are happier than couples who have conflicting beliefs around equity.
Less Likely to Divorce
Couples who have more equal divisions of labor are less likely to divorce than are couples where one partner specializes in breadwinning and the other partner specializes in family work
Both partners are setup to win.
How does Fair Play work?
The system is made up of 100 cards outlining childcare and household tasks. Each couple creates their own deck of cards based on what makes sense for them. The cards are then dealt strategically between the players in accordance with the couple’s shared values and mutually agreed-upon expectations, as well as individual’s strengths and abilities. No player holds any cards by default, each person’s responsibilities are transparent and explicitly defined, and both partners are set up to win.
A significant focus is placed on the following two concepts:
- Conception, Planning & Execution (CPE), which unveils all of the invisible steps required to complete a task.
- Minimum Standard of Care (MSC) is the expectation that you will follow through on the steps with your family’s standard for competence and care, and on a timetable that works for your family.
Understanding and committing to following the CPE and MSC are critical to success!
Getting on the same page
What are the benefits of using Fair Play?
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