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Ask Orbit · by Mango Fern · 2026-10-19

Weekly check-in with your spouse, helpful or cringe?

We tried a 20 minute Sunday check-in about money, plans and feelings. Surprisingly helpful. Does anyone else do this?

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Tiago Costa · 10 likes

Can someone explain weekly check-ins like I'm five? Feels like I missed a few chapters

Imogen Clarke · 1 likes

lol this is too accurate

Silver Coder · 9 likes

Honestly weekly check-ins is more interesting than I expected, been reading about it all morning

Narin Chai · 6 likes

underrated comment right here

Isha Menon · 0 likes

Thanks, that actually helped a lot

João Pereira · 4 likes

underrated take: weekly check-ins matters more for small teams than big companies

Rachel Tan · 4 likes

Same here, had teh exact same experience

Quiet Noodle · 2 likes

ok but who is going to do the maintenance, asking for a friend

Rapid Coder · 4 likes

Skeptical but curious about weekly check-ins. Anyone got actual numbers or vibes

Priya Nair · 10 likes

disagree a bit, but I see where you're coming from

Mateo Cruz · 2 likes

Everyone is ignoring teh tradeoffs of weekly check-ins, performance vs complexity is a real thing

Avery Johnson · 3 likes

my wallet just cried reading this

Huy Le · 1 likes

weekly check-ins will be boring in a year and everybody will use it anyway lol

Piotr Zieliński · 3 likes

fair point, I hadn't thought about it that way

Ethan Brooks · 0 likes

As an enthusiast I'm just happy to see weekly check-ins getting attention, hope it keeps going

Tiny River · 1 likes

Underrated comment right here