What your partnercan read ,and what stays only yours.
One rule, held by the app itself: nothing crosses the line the answer carries.
One answer, twoways of being kept.
What you wrote
Chapter one · What money mistake are you most afraid of us making?
Quietly covering for my brother again — and never saying how much.
The same words in both cases. What changes is not what you wrote — it is who can read it.
01
Shared
They read it in full, side by side with their own answer, once you have both finished the chapter. Never earlier.
Both answers open at once, or neither does.
02
Private
They are shown nothing at all. Not the words, not a locked row, not the fact that you wrote.
No locked row, no gap. Nothing of it reaches them.
Photograph to come · the one that stops the scroll
The demonstration above ends on a mechanism, one line before the page asks for two and a half screens of trust. This frame puts the stake back — and it holds the reader by withholding: you try to read the page, and you cannot. It does to the viewer exactly what the app does to a partner.
Two people at one table on an ordinary evening, both writing, in the same lamplight. Neither looks at the other's page. One has stopped mid-sentence and is looking away, thinking — that hesitation is the subject, not the writing. Both pages are turned far enough from the camera that the viewer cannot read them either.
Not in frame: no padlock, key, keyhole or shield. No blur or pixel mask over the writing — concealment must never be visible, because the promise on this page is that withholding leaves no mark. No phones, no screens, no rings or venue. They are not looking at each other, and this is not a posed portrait.
Our sideof the vows.
- Nothing is graded
There is no result, no ranking and no percentage. The app cannot produce one, because nothing in it measures the two of you against anything.
- Private is invisible
A private answer does not appear to your partner as a locked row or a greyed-out card. It does not appear at all. They are never shown that something is being withheld.
- Never sold
What you write is not sold, not shared with advertisers, and not used to train anything.
- Delete means delete
Delete your account and the answers go with it, not archived, not retained against a future request.
Two chapters arehandled differently.
- 07
Intimacy, you each set a depth, privately. The gentler one leads.
- 08
Children, a difference here is framed with care, never as a contest.
Photograph to come · the release
The page has explained the mechanism four times over and never once shown what it leaves behind. One screen before the reader decides, this says: nothing happened. It is deliberately the least dramatic picture on the site — if it competes with the frame above, both become wallpaper.
A weekday morning in the same home, later. One of them is still getting ready and looking for something; the other is at the door with a bag, saying something ordinary. Neither is thinking about the night before. Its only trace is two chairs still turned toward each other at the table, and nobody is looking at them.
Not in frame: nothing being discussed, no meaningful glance, no tension held in the shoulders. No app screen, and no notebook — that object belongs to /programme. Not styled for the camera: no props set out, no golden hour doing the work the situation should do.