Play
A playful mindset as the operating system. Play is not the entertainment. It's the lubricant. Marriage as playground, not prison.
From clinic rooms in Tel Aviv to lecture halls in Philadelphia. From prison group rooms to keynote stages. From retreat tents to kitchen tables in five time zones. We've taught this model at every scale, from an intimate one-on-two coaching call to a room of one hundred couples.
That's not the bad outcome. That's the prerequisite. The old marriage ending is the first honest step toward a real one, built deliberately, with the same person, on better tools and a wider emotional range. You don't save it. You don't fix it. You remarry.
Most of us didn't grow up with parents who remarried each other. So when the ABCs come to visit, we know only two moves: split up, or fall asleep at the wheel. There's a third way. You can remarry the person you're already with. Again, and again, and again. Your next marriage will end too, so this is a roadmap you'll use for the rest of your life together.
We will all remarry. Some of us to the same person.
If that sentence lands, you're in the room. If it doesn't, we'll tell you, honestly, on the call.
Eight weeks of core video curriculum, with four additional weeks of guided integration and the closing remarriage ritual.
Everything we ever learned about relationships, psychotherapy, NLP, coaching and improv, we ran first through our own marriage. Our marriage is our relational laboratory. The Roadmap is reverse-engineered from what actually worked.
We've now coached thousands of couples around the world. Together we've moved through COVID, war, immigration, kids, relocation, affairs of every kind, career detonations, and ordinary Tuesdays where someone forgot to say hello. You name it, we've sat in it.
We've taught this model in university lecture halls, in clinic group rooms, in prison facilitation groups, in retreat tents, on keynote stages, and at kitchen tables. From an intimate two-on-two coaching call to a room of three hundred couples. The model works at every scale.
That's our relational integrity to you. Every tool in this roadmap has been load-tested by us, and by thousands of couples who came before you. Every time you remarry, you feel a little more free, together.
Dr. Assael Romanelli is an LCSW, certified couple and family therapist, clinical supervisor, and the author of the Hebrew bestseller To Feel Free Together - How To Remarry Your Partner. He's a long-running Psychology Today contributor with over 100 published articles (academic and popular) and more than 2 million reads, has published in peer-reviewed journals, taught in universities, and lectured everywhere from clinic conferences to keynote stages. Twenty years in the clinic. Twenty years in improvisation. The Ninja Therapist approach is what happens when those two finally collide.
Galit Romanelli is a certified personal coach, experiential facilitator, MA, and PhD candidate with more than a decade in transitions and transformations. On camera, she's the one who says “the truth is, I was selfish and lazy” out loud, so you don't have to be the first.
Sixteen years married. Six remarriages to each other. The examples in this program aren't case studies, they're our Tuesday nights: the elbow in the back at 2am, the fight in the car about his colleague, the double-bag garbage, the texts we wish we hadn't sent. We teach from the kitchen, not the clinic.
The result has a name. It's the name of our book and what we wish for every couple in The Roadmap: to feel free together.
“For us, this experience was a step into something new and totally out of the comfort zone. The effort that both of us put into stepping out had a positive ripple effect of playfulness and appreciation for each other. I saw my husband's effort. This brought us connection and openness.”
“A good balance between theory and practice. You gave great personal examples and were so well coordinated as co-facilitators that I wondered if you'd practiced who'd say what. Even, or especially, after almost forty years of marriage, recalling the how and why of play is so important. Thank you Assael and Galit, for the recipes and the spoon full of sugar.”
“The content is excellent. Explained clear and simple. You guys should write a book on how to be married and make it a must-read for all newlyweds. It was a deep and meaningful understanding of what relationship really is. Thank you both very much for doing what you do.”
Our first full Roadmap cohort wraps in late 2026. Long-form video case studies, both partners on camera, are in production.
Both partners on the call. We'll listen, we'll ask the questions therapy didn't, and at the end we'll tell you straight: which tier is the right room for you, or whether it's not the right room at all.
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