a yearly couples check-in

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Reflect on your year and design your future — together.

By Jason Owen & Kate Edgar Owen
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Cover of Our Story Continued: A Yearly Couples Check-In
the idea

You plan for your career.
Why not your relationship?

It's common to set New Year's resolutions or yearly business goals — but do you give that same thoughtful reflection to your most important relationship?

Our Story Continued is a guided check-in for you and your partner: capture your year's highlights, reflect on deeper takeaways, and set intentions for the next trip around the sun — together. Perfect for anniversaries, an end-of-year sync, or any quiet moment to reconnect.

A page from the book reading: Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. — Hal Borland
how it works

Built for Post-its, not perfection.

This lighthearted experience is designed to be used with 3"×5" Post-it notes so your answers can flow without over-perfecting. Each of you answers at your own pace, then places your note on the page and shares — building your story together, one spread at a time.

Set aside real time

We recommend 1–3 hours to comfortably go through the book together, start to finish.

Lean into the pause

Turn off notifications and find a spot where the two of you won't be distracted.

Enjoy the experience

It isn't about perfect completion — it's about the time you spend together.

the story of &

Three chapters. One year, revisited.

Each check-in moves through the same arc — look back, take it in, then look ahead.

Chapter 1

Replay the hits

Reflect on the "highlights reel" of your past year, and bring a bit of playful levity to whatever kind of year it was — best yet, or full of growth.

Our Highlight Reel Top Fave Shared Memories Draw Our Year
Chapter 2

Embrace it all

Now that you've walked through the year, this next chapter is a continuation — a moment to acknowledge what dreams were already started, and what growth were already in motion.

Dreams Realized Top Fave Moments of Intimacy Our Proudest Moments Let It Go, Let It Go* Release It
Chapter 3

Write your story

Now that we're looked back together, celebrated, and let go — this is where you get to look ahead and write, together, what you hope and dream for as a couple in the year ahead.

Our Shared Intentions One Word Ahead I'm Most Excited About... Share Gratitude
a peek inside

Straight from the pages.

The printed book held in hand, showing the back cover copy, next to its sage satin pouch and gold pens. In real life
Chapter divider page reading The Story Of, with a teal script ampersand. Chapter divider
A spread for recording your anniversary, years together, and the dates of this check-in. Set the scene
Chapter opener titled Replay the Hits: savor favorite moments from your past year together. Chapter 1 opener
A prompt page titled Top Fave Shared Memories, with two blank Post-it boxes. A Post-it prompt
The About This Book page explaining how the Post-it method works, with tips for using the book. How it works, in print
"Happily ever after is not a fairy tale, it's a choice."
— Fawn Weaver, quoted in Chapter 3
get your copy

Bring it to your next check-in.

Cover of Our Story Continued

Our Story Continued

A Yearly Couples Check-In
39 pages 6×9" trade paperback Color interior ISBN 979-8-9942820-1-4
$16.99paperback
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who made this
Jason Owen & Kate Edgar Owen

Written by a couple who wanted a better ritual for checking in with each other — something more intentional than a New Year's toast, and a lot less formal than a therapy worksheet. Our Story Continued is the result: a once-a-year check-in built to be picked up again and again.