A pastor who kept noticing the same thing.

The same thing kept happening. The conversation that decided the most was the one neither person had ever practised saying out loud. They had opinions about money. They had never heard themselves answer.

A workbook gets a couple discussing a subject with somebody skilled in the room. What no workbook does is let one person find out, in private and in advance, what they would actually say when it lands. That gap is the whole of this.

He is not a certified counsellor and he is not a therapist. He holds one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education. Nothing here is therapy, nothing here is a clinical assessment, and he would say the same thing in person.

He writes the software himself. When something in this product is wrong, it is his to fix and there is nobody else to blame for it.

If you want to know where this stands on a question of theology or sexuality before you put your name anywhere near it, ask him directly and he will answer you plainly. That is a conversation for a person, not a paragraph on a website.

What can be said here: nothing in the product assumes who counts as a couple, and nothing in it is designed to sort people.

Wise Dating Prep is 21 written scenarios and one live session, built to find out whether rehearsing is worth anything to anyone. Of those, one has been read line by line by a person; the other 20 are drafts, they play, and every screen of them says so. If it turns out rehearsing is worth nothing to anyone, none of it will become a product.

There are no customers, so there are no testimonials on this site and there will not be invented ones. The live session costs $24.95 CAD per participant — charged on purpose, because free would not tell him whether it was worth having. The browser rehearsal is free and stays free. The catalogue says the same thing on every row.

He answers his own email, usually within a day: john@churchwiseai.com