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Understand your relationship patterns and what you can do differently—with tools that give meaningful change its best chance.
Understand your relationship patterns and what you can do differently—with tools that give meaningful change its best chance.
  • Three daily choices
  • An AI coach guided by Kate's curriculum—not therapy
  • Your words, your pace, no pressure to stay or leave
Kate Gray, LMFT
Created byKate Gray, LMFT
Licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma and couples work.
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Who it's For

For people navigating relationships with a partner, parent, child, sibling, friend, or co-parent. Whether you're working on your own reactions, taking accountability for harm, or seeking clarity and protection, the work fits your goals, power, and safety—not an assumption that every relationship is 50–50.

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You completed 5 relationship reflections this week.

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Understand your own patterns

Recognize how you respond when someone is defensive, shut down, or resistant.

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Protect your wellbeing

Learn the difference between discomfort and abuse, and consider boundaries or protective steps that fit your circumstances.

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Choose what changes for you

Build responses that match your needs and values. Progress is about your own choices—not making the other person change or taking responsibility for their abuse.

Kate Gray's curriculum

Built on Kate's method

Choose one activity for roughly 10–15 minutes—not a checklist of all three. Your options are prepared overnight and stay available all day, drawing on your phase, relationship context, and recent activity where available.

Stop Trying Harder. Start Changing the Pattern.Stop Trying Harder. Start Changing the Pattern.
Get started

Stop Trying Harder. Start Changing the Pattern.

Understand your relationship patterns and what you can do differently—with tools that give meaningful change its best chance.
Understand your relationship patterns and what you can do differently—with tools that give meaningful change its best chance.
  • Three daily choices
  • An AI coach guided by Kate's curriculum—not therapy
  • Your words, your pace, no pressure to stay or leave
Kate Gray, LMFT
Created byKate Gray, LMFT
Licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma and couples work.
Background
Hero image

Today's Activity

7 min • Identifying Codependency

Continue activity
Get started
Your patterns, your choices

Who it's For

For people navigating relationships with a partner, parent, child, sibling, friend, or co-parent. Whether you're working on your own reactions, taking accountability for harm, or seeking clarity and protection, the work fits your goals, power, and safety—not an assumption that every relationship is 50–50.

Feature image

Your practice this week

You completed 5 relationship reflections this week.

psychology

Understand your own patterns

Recognize how you respond when someone is defensive, shut down, or resistant.

favorite

Protect your wellbeing

Learn the difference between discomfort and abuse, and consider boundaries or protective steps that fit your circumstances.

self_improvement

Choose what changes for you

Build responses that match your needs and values. Progress is about your own choices—not making the other person change or taking responsibility for their abuse.

Kate Gray's curriculum

Built on Kate's method

Choose one activity for roughly 10–15 minutes—not a checklist of all three. Your options are prepared overnight and stay available all day, drawing on your phase, relationship context, and recent activity where available.

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Daily Check-In

Bias Awareness

Today's Activity

7 min • Identifying Codependency

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Relationship Reflection

Three daily choices, with Kate's toolkit behind them

psychology

Bring a situation

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Describe what happened, prepare for a conversation, or—if safe—paste a text or email exchange or upload a screenshot. Summaries and fictional examples are welcome.

favorite

Focus on me

keyboard_arrow_down

Explore your feelings, needs, body cues, and values without needing a specific incident. Use the tool that fits, rather than repeating the same exercise.

school

Learn something

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A prepared lesson with a clear explanation, a relevant example, a takeaway, a brief application, and a matched resource from Kate's material.

check_circle

Tools for real life

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Learn BEND, Emotional Forecasting, Top-Down / Bottom-Up, boundaries, the Hate List, and body-based practices as they fit your situation—not BEND every day.

insights

My Working Picture

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Describe your patterns, where you learned them, and what you want for yourself. Save and revisit your own reflections in Progress to see what's shifting.

feedback

Find your own words

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Work with the AI coach on short, plain-language boundaries and requests that sound like you. You choose the wording and whether to use it.

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A 12-week foundation, at your pace

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Begin with a conversational intake over Stage 1, then move through detachment, repair and connection, and follow-up. Sessions are user-paced, not fixed daily deadlines.

self_improvement

Support in the moment

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Open the Coach when a text arrives or a conversation feels difficult. Start with safety, one grounding step, and a choice about what you want next—including not responding.

quiz

What I learned—and what to bring to therapy

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Optional learning summaries and weekly reflections help you carry insight forward. If you have a therapist, choose what to bring to a session; nothing is sent automatically.

Built on Kate's curriculum

Meet Kate Gray, LMFT

Kate Gray, LMFT

Kate Gray, LMFT

Licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma and couples work.

Kate Gray is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma and couples work, and the creator behind Codependency Kate. Through her social media and podcast "Class with Kate," she makes complex relationship dynamics easier to understand, with plain-language education about codependency, emotional neglect, power, and boundaries.

Her approach helps people work smarter—not harder—toward change in their relationships. By understanding what’s happening, what keeps the pattern going, and what they can do differently, people can focus their efforts where they have the greatest likelihood of creating meaningful change. The focus is on themselves—their responses, needs, boundaries, and choices—as a way to influence the relationship, not simply cope with it.

Relate brings that approach into daily practice, with space to tell your story, understand your patterns, and work through what’s happening in your life.

What Kate's curriculum teaches

See your patterns without shame. Codependency is a survival strategy you learned, not a flaw.
Understand what drives behavior. Use BEND to name what’s underneath and forecast your reactions before they hit.
Know where you are. Move from Attachment through Detachment to Connection.
Tell discomfort, abuse, and danger apart. Learn which one you’re dealing with, and what each calls for.
Trace where you learned it. Connect today’s reactions to what kept you safe growing up.
Name it to tame it. Use the Hate List to meet what’s really there with compassion instead of gratitude-washing it.
Regulate from the body up. Calm your nervous system first, so you can choose your response.
See the hidden power. Notice who adapts, who stays quiet, and what’s never said out loud.
Set boundaries that hold. Go top-down with them and bottom-up with yourself.
Find your own words. Say what’s true, simply, in language that sounds like you.
Know what help you need. Learn which kind of therapist, group, or advocate fits your situation, and how to find one.
Shift the tone you bring. Change the emotional climate of a relationship from your side of it.
Respond in the moment. Buy time, step away, or say one clear thing, and know that not responding is a choice too.
Own your part without carrying theirs. Take real accountability while leaving their behavior with them.
An AI coach, not a therapist

How Relate's AI coach works

Relate's AI coach is guided by Kate's curriculum—not Kate herself or a human therapist. It gets to know you through conversation, helps you understand what's happening, explains a relevant concept, and works with you on a next step in your own words. You can talk outside your daily activities, including when you need brief, practical help in the moment. It does not diagnose anyone or decide whether you should stay or leave.

book

Uncovering Hidden Relationship Patterns

Personalized Lesson • 14 min
Learn a concept from Kate's curriculum, explore how it shows up in your life, and choose a next step in your own words. This is one of three daily options—not a requirement to complete them all. Your choices and safety come first.
What to do
edit
Learn the concept
4 min
chevron_right
analytics
Explore your example
3 min
chevron_right
assignment
Choose your next step
3 min
chevron_right
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What I learned
3 min
chevron_right
Safety at your pace

If your relationship is hurting you

Understand where your relationship falls on the spectrum of discomfort, abuse, and danger—and what your options are. No sugar-coating. No pressure to stay or leave. Just clarity to make informed decisions.

If abuse is part of your experience, Relate offers education and support for understanding your options. It supplements—not replaces—therapy, professional advocacy, or emergency services. Safety comes before relationship-improvement exercises, and you decide what steps to take.

Onboarding Quiz

What’s your main relationship goal?

Understand my codependent patterns
Communicate my needs more clearly
Reduce conflict and resentment
Restore trust and connection
1

Discomfort, abuse, or danger?

Learn to recognize the difference between discomfort, abuse, and danger—including coercive control, DARVO, and avoidance abuse—and understand what each calls for.

Your Plan

Week 1

Awareness & Foundations

Recognizing Internal Biases
Identifying Codependent Behaviors
Daily Self-Reflection Practice
Setting Initial Boundaries
Week 2Upcoming

Applying New Skills

2

No pressure to stay or leave

Get an honest picture of what's happening and the options available—so you can make informed decisions. Staying or leaving is your choice.

Today, October 26

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Daily Check-In

Reflection • 3 min

Bias Awareness

Lesson • 5 min

Spot Codependent Patterns

Activity • 7 min

Relationship Reflection

Journal • 4 min

3

Safety planning, together

Consider one feasible protective step at a time, matched to your circumstances and device safety. A safety plan is not a commitment to leave, and no plan can guarantee safety.

Your Progress

Lessons Completed

24 lessons

as of Aug 20

JulyOctober

Daily Reflections Completed

38 reflections

as of Aug 20

JulyOctober
4

Support that fits your country

In immediate danger, contact your local emergency service if safe to do so. Find crisis and abuse helplines by country at findahelpline.com. Calls and texts may appear on shared phone bills or call logs.

It only takes 2 minutes to get started

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What people say about Kate’s work

Feedback on Kate’s educational content and frameworks—not reviews of the Relate app. Longer messages are excerpted below.

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Yes! Love this framework. I’ve understood and have taught this as abusing authority within the parent/child dyad as “Powering Under”. Love your deep insight always
I
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I’ve been searching for these answers for a few years now. Thank you for making the alternative wheel. I feel so validated 🥹
I
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This is the best innovation I've seen in the psychology field in a long time!! Thank you for creating greater clarity!!
I
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Verified customer
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Thank you so much for your work. I’m a firm believer of once we name it we can get to healing it
I
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Verified customer
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I’m crying - you are doing really important work here and I’m so grateful - it’s saving my health and sanity... or at least it’s giving me very important tools so hopefully I can save my own health and sanity
I
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I never thought my quest to save one relationship would enhance my relationships with everyone. … I’m more hopeful, I’m solving problems, and I feel connected to myself in ways I haven’t since I was a confident, younger version of myself.
M
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I just need to tell you what a profound impact you’ve had on me over the past year. … Fast forward to today, where I can sit and hold real space for my partner … I’m 43 years old, and it has finally all made sense and I feel SO free. Thank you.
M
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VERIFIED CUSTOMER
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You’re so brilliant and you’ve helped my so much over the past year. Thank you!!
I
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Instagram comment
Verified customer
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This is everything I’ve spent years studying and trying to articulate. The intersection of trauma, attachment, family systems, power, control, and emotional avoidance. Especially how people’s reactions to chronic invalidation, neglect, and avoidance of accountability become pathologized as mental health issues, while the relational dynamics contributing to their distress go unexamined. We’ve become so focused on managing people’s reactions that we often fail to question what they’re reacting to. Such an important conversation. 👏🏻
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
Ma’am, respectfully, I have TMJ from all the stress and it hurt when my jaw hit the ’effing floor. You are SO right! My therapist will be hearing about this next week. 🫶
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
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I can’t tell you enough how validating this is.
I
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Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
Thank you for breaking this down, and breaking it up in parts, and providing this great visual. This is great teaching
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
Thank you so much for all the information you have shared online and the free packet. 💜 It's been so helpful to name it and be aware; I am hopeful to heal and I know how to identify it in relationships in the future.
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Relate therapy?
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Is the coach a real person?
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Will it tell me to leave my relationship?
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What if I'm in an abusive relationship?
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Does my partner need to use it?
expand_more
Where can I find immediate support?
expand_more
What should I know before sharing sensitive information?
expand_more
Coaching and education, not therapy

Get started

Start with your own goals, at your own pace. Relate offers AI coaching and education—not therapy or an emergency service.

In immediate danger, contact your local emergency service if safe. In the U.S.: 911 for emergencies; the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788; call or text 988 for suicide or crisis support. Outside the U.S., find country-specific helplines at findahelpline.com. Calls and texts may appear on shared bills or call logs.

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Three daily choices, with Kate's toolkit behind them

psychology

Bring a situation

keyboard_arrow_down

Describe what happened, prepare for a conversation, or—if safe—paste a text or email exchange or upload a screenshot. Summaries and fictional examples are welcome.

favorite

Focus on me

keyboard_arrow_down

Explore your feelings, needs, body cues, and values without needing a specific incident. Use the tool that fits, rather than repeating the same exercise.

school

Learn something

keyboard_arrow_down

A prepared lesson with a clear explanation, a relevant example, a takeaway, a brief application, and a matched resource from Kate's material.

check_circle

Tools for real life

keyboard_arrow_down

Learn BEND, Emotional Forecasting, Top-Down / Bottom-Up, boundaries, the Hate List, and body-based practices as they fit your situation—not BEND every day.

insights

My Working Picture

keyboard_arrow_down

Describe your patterns, where you learned them, and what you want for yourself. Save and revisit your own reflections in Progress to see what's shifting.

feedback

Find your own words

keyboard_arrow_down

Work with the AI coach on short, plain-language boundaries and requests that sound like you. You choose the wording and whether to use it.

calendar_today

A 12-week foundation, at your pace

keyboard_arrow_down

Begin with a conversational intake over Stage 1, then move through detachment, repair and connection, and follow-up. Sessions are user-paced, not fixed daily deadlines.

self_improvement

Support in the moment

keyboard_arrow_down

Open the Coach when a text arrives or a conversation feels difficult. Start with safety, one grounding step, and a choice about what you want next—including not responding.

quiz

What I learned—and what to bring to therapy

keyboard_arrow_down

Optional learning summaries and weekly reflections help you carry insight forward. If you have a therapist, choose what to bring to a session; nothing is sent automatically.

Built on Kate's curriculum

Meet Kate Gray, LMFT

Kate Gray, LMFT

Kate Gray, LMFT

Licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma and couples work.

Kate Gray is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma and couples work, and the creator behind Codependency Kate. Through her social media and podcast "Class with Kate," she makes complex relationship dynamics easier to understand, with plain-language education about codependency, emotional neglect, power, and boundaries.

Her approach helps people work smarter—not harder—toward change in their relationships. By understanding what’s happening, what keeps the pattern going, and what they can do differently, people can focus their efforts where they have the greatest likelihood of creating meaningful change. The focus is on themselves—their responses, needs, boundaries, and choices—as a way to influence the relationship, not simply cope with it.

Relate brings that approach into daily practice, with space to tell your story, understand your patterns, and work through what’s happening in your life.

What Kate's curriculum teaches

See your patterns without shame. Codependency is a survival strategy you learned, not a flaw.
Understand what drives behavior. Use BEND to name what’s underneath and forecast your reactions before they hit.
Know where you are. Move from Attachment through Detachment to Connection.
Tell discomfort, abuse, and danger apart. Learn which one you’re dealing with, and what each calls for.
Trace where you learned it. Connect today’s reactions to what kept you safe growing up.
Name it to tame it. Use the Hate List to meet what’s really there with compassion instead of gratitude-washing it.
Regulate from the body up. Calm your nervous system first, so you can choose your response.
See the hidden power. Notice who adapts, who stays quiet, and what’s never said out loud.
Set boundaries that hold. Go top-down with them and bottom-up with yourself.
Find your own words. Say what’s true, simply, in language that sounds like you.
Know what help you need. Learn which kind of therapist, group, or advocate fits your situation, and how to find one.
Shift the tone you bring. Change the emotional climate of a relationship from your side of it.
Respond in the moment. Buy time, step away, or say one clear thing, and know that not responding is a choice too.
Own your part without carrying theirs. Take real accountability while leaving their behavior with them.
An AI coach, not a therapist

How Relate's AI coach works

Relate's AI coach is guided by Kate's curriculum—not Kate herself or a human therapist. It gets to know you through conversation, helps you understand what's happening, explains a relevant concept, and works with you on a next step in your own words. You can talk outside your daily activities, including when you need brief, practical help in the moment. It does not diagnose anyone or decide whether you should stay or leave.

book

Uncovering Hidden Relationship Patterns

Personalized Lesson • 14 min
Learn a concept from Kate's curriculum, explore how it shows up in your life, and choose a next step in your own words. This is one of three daily options—not a requirement to complete them all. Your choices and safety come first.
What to do
edit
Learn the concept
4 min
chevron_right
analytics
Explore your example
3 min
chevron_right
assignment
Choose your next step
3 min
chevron_right
spa
What I learned
3 min
chevron_right
Safety at your pace

If your relationship is hurting you

Understand where your relationship falls on the spectrum of discomfort, abuse, and danger—and what your options are. No sugar-coating. No pressure to stay or leave. Just clarity to make informed decisions.

If abuse is part of your experience, Relate offers education and support for understanding your options. It supplements—not replaces—therapy, professional advocacy, or emergency services. Safety comes before relationship-improvement exercises, and you decide what steps to take.

Onboarding Quiz

What’s your main relationship goal?

Understand my codependent patterns
Communicate my needs more clearly
Reduce conflict and resentment
Restore trust and connection
1

Discomfort, abuse, or danger?

Learn to recognize the difference between discomfort, abuse, and danger—including coercive control, DARVO, and avoidance abuse—and understand what each calls for.

Your Plan

Week 1

Awareness & Foundations

Recognizing Internal Biases
Identifying Codependent Behaviors
Daily Self-Reflection Practice
Setting Initial Boundaries
Week 2Upcoming

Applying New Skills

2

No pressure to stay or leave

Get an honest picture of what's happening and the options available—so you can make informed decisions. Staying or leaving is your choice.

Today, October 26

6
V

Daily Check-In

Reflection • 3 min

Bias Awareness

Lesson • 5 min

Spot Codependent Patterns

Activity • 7 min

Relationship Reflection

Journal • 4 min

3

Safety planning, together

Consider one feasible protective step at a time, matched to your circumstances and device safety. A safety plan is not a commitment to leave, and no plan can guarantee safety.

Your Progress

Lessons Completed

24 lessons

as of Aug 20

JulyOctober

Daily Reflections Completed

38 reflections

as of Aug 20

JulyOctober
4

Support that fits your country

In immediate danger, contact your local emergency service if safe to do so. Find crisis and abuse helplines by country at findahelpline.com. Calls and texts may appear on shared phone bills or call logs.

It only takes 2 minutes to get started

starstarstarstarstar

What people say about Kate’s work

Feedback on Kate’s educational content and frameworks—not reviews of the Relate app. Longer messages are excerpted below.

Quote
Yes! Love this framework. I’ve understood and have taught this as abusing authority within the parent/child dyad as “Powering Under”. Love your deep insight always
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
I’ve been searching for these answers for a few years now. Thank you for making the alternative wheel. I feel so validated 🥹
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
This is the best innovation I've seen in the psychology field in a long time!! Thank you for creating greater clarity!!
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
Thank you so much for your work. I’m a firm believer of once we name it we can get to healing it
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
I’m crying - you are doing really important work here and I’m so grateful - it’s saving my health and sanity... or at least it’s giving me very important tools so hopefully I can save my own health and sanity
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
I never thought my quest to save one relationship would enhance my relationships with everyone. … I’m more hopeful, I’m solving problems, and I feel connected to myself in ways I haven’t since I was a confident, younger version of myself.
M
starstarstarstarstar
Message to Kate
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
Quote
I just need to tell you what a profound impact you’ve had on me over the past year. … Fast forward to today, where I can sit and hold real space for my partner … I’m 43 years old, and it has finally all made sense and I feel SO free. Thank you.
M
starstarstarstarstar
Message to Kate
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
Quote
You’re so brilliant and you’ve helped my so much over the past year. Thank you!!
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
This is everything I’ve spent years studying and trying to articulate. The intersection of trauma, attachment, family systems, power, control, and emotional avoidance. Especially how people’s reactions to chronic invalidation, neglect, and avoidance of accountability become pathologized as mental health issues, while the relational dynamics contributing to their distress go unexamined. We’ve become so focused on managing people’s reactions that we often fail to question what they’re reacting to. Such an important conversation. 👏🏻
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
Ma’am, respectfully, I have TMJ from all the stress and it hurt when my jaw hit the ’effing floor. You are SO right! My therapist will be hearing about this next week. 🫶
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
I can’t tell you enough how validating this is.
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
Thank you for breaking this down, and breaking it up in parts, and providing this great visual. This is great teaching
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
Quote
Thank you so much for all the information you have shared online and the free packet. 💜 It's been so helpful to name it and be aware; I am hopeful to heal and I know how to identify it in relationships in the future.
I
starstarstarstarstar
Instagram comment
Verified customer
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Relate therapy?
expand_more
Is the coach a real person?
expand_more
Will it tell me to leave my relationship?
expand_more
What if I'm in an abusive relationship?
expand_more
Does my partner need to use it?
expand_more
Where can I find immediate support?
expand_more
What should I know before sharing sensitive information?
expand_more
Coaching and education, not therapy

Get started

Start with your own goals, at your own pace. Relate offers AI coaching and education—not therapy or an emergency service.

In immediate danger, contact your local emergency service if safe. In the U.S.: 911 for emergencies; the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788; call or text 988 for suicide or crisis support. Outside the U.S., find country-specific helplines at findahelpline.com. Calls and texts may appear on shared bills or call logs.