Minneapolis, MN · Issue of September 9, 2026
Partners covers marriage and partnership as a working arrangement: the division of labour, money, conflict, sex, and what happens when a household separates and has to be run across two addresses. Reported honestly enough to be useful and without any interest in telling people to stay or go.
The relationships editor and the one divorced member of staff, which he considers the qualification.
The legal costs are the part people expect. The part that flattens households is the six months afterwards, when one income has to furnish two kitchens and both of them need a can opener.
Tom Beckett
Four sittings, ninety-one minutes in total, one load of towels used as evidence. A transcript of a household changing the terms of something it had never actually agreed to in the first place.
By Andre Bellamy1 min read
Households that run a weekly meeting report fewer arguments and better-distributed labour. Most households that start one abandon it inside six weeks, and the reason is almost never the one they give.
By Tom Beckett2 min read
Couples do not avoid talking about money because it is complicated. They avoid it because every previous attempt turned into an argument about character. Here is a forty-minute version that does not, taken from households where it worked.
By Tom Beckett3 min read
Return-to-office mandates have split a lot of households into one adult at a desk in the spare room and one adult on a train. It changes the division of labour immediately, invisibly, and almost always in the same direction.
By Tom Beckett3 min read
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