"If you're trying to bake a cake and the only ingredient you have is flour, you're fucked."

Let’s dismantle a massive relationship myth right now: Date nights will NOT magically fix a broken marriage.

If your connection has been running on fumes for years and your primary strategy is grabbing a $200 dinner once a month while scrolling on your phones across the table... you’re trying to bake a cake with nothing but flour. Date night is an important ingredient, sure - it’s just not the only ingredient.

In this briefing, Craig takes the mic to read Chapter 28: The ABDs of Marriage. We are calling out the dangerous post-wedding trap where couples hit the brakes the second they say "I do" instead of slamming their foot on the gas.

We're diving into the non-negotiable rule of high-performance couples: Always. Be. Dating.

Inside this Strategic Briefing for Your Team:

• The "Shit Sandwich" Reality Check: Look ahead 20 years to when the kids are out of the house and the chores are hired out. If you ignore your teammate now, do you want your late-stage "strangers" relationship served with mustard or mayo?

• The #1 Priority Hierarchy: Why your marriage has to sit at the absolute top of the charts above your job, your business, and yes - even the kids. (Fuck 'em! Just kidding... but they sit at number two).

• Rescheduling over Skipping: Why life happens, but letting a missed date night slide without immediately putting it back in the calendar is the ultimate unforced error.

• The Weighted-Vest Hailstorm Massacre: The true story of a ski-resort hike, 40 pounds of extra iron, grape-sized hail pelting our faces, bleeding ears, and why getting pummeled on a mountain created a core memory.

• Creating Your Highlight Reel: Why presence is the only place happiness actually exists - and how being present builds a library of core memories you'll re-live on your front porch 50 years from now.

The Play: Marriage isn't the finish line - it's the starting line. Stop taking your teammate for granted, put date night in the calendar like a non-negotiable executive meeting, and start pursuing your person again.

(And hey, bonus discovery: dating apparently leads to hailstorms, hailstorms lead to welts, and welts are sexy).

Don’t you dare settle for fine. 🏔️🚀

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Resources:

• Grab The 200% Marriage Book: Amazon.com ; Amazon.ca
• 33-day Challenge: https://200percentmarriage.com/33DayChallenge

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