A relationship book for people who are too busy for relationship books

Life is busy. By the time you’re done with work, packing the kids’ lunches, responding to the group chat, cleaning the kitchen, and scrolling for longer than you meant to, there’s no time left for love. You stop checking in with your partner, date nights fall off the calendar, and everything else somehow takes priority over your relationship.

In Busy Love, authors and relationship coaches Kaley and Nate Klemp offer a new solution to the relationship challenge of our time: staying connected in a time of constant busyness. Busy Love outlines a seven-step guide for shifting from Love by Accident, where you allow random chance and the mess of everyday life to shape your relationship, to Love by Design, where you get to create the life and relationship you most want.

Drawing from their own marriage and interviews with busy couples, the Klemps outline twenty-seven easy-to-implement tools that will help you:

1. Break the cycle of busyness and create more space for love.
2. Do the inner work to become the partner you want to be.
3. Turn everyday moments into opportunities for deeper connection.
4. Approach money as a team instead of allowing it to create conflict.
5. Streamline the logistics of running a life together.
6. Stop friends, family, and work from interfering in your relationship.
7. Stay connected in a world of constant distraction and crisis.

You probably can’t get rid of life’s busyness, but with a little time, intention, and care, you and your partner can reprioritize love, and design a relationship that allows you to stay connected, even in the midst of life’s chaos.