Remember
Return to the moments, choices, places, and ordinary firsts that formed your shared story.
The Firsts Project
Your story was built—one first at a time.
The Book of Firsts is a guided workbook for couples who want to remember where they have been, reclaim what matters, and keep creating a life together.
Michael C. M. “Chip” SmithRemember · Reclaim · Create
A workbook for the relationship you are actually living.
This is not a compatibility test or a list of rules. It is an invitation to notice the relationship you have actually made—and to keep making it intentionally.
Reclaim
Look again at what familiarity, routine, pain, or busyness may have hidden from view.
Create
Imagine and practice firsts that do not exist yet—at every age and stage of relationship.
Who it is for
A book that can meet a couple wherever they are.
New relationships. Long marriages. Weddings and anniversaries. Seasons of rediscovery. Couples who want deeper conversation without being told what their relationship should look like.
The hope is simple: that someone might receive this book as a wedding gift, find it again twenty years later during a move, and discover that there are still new things to remember, reclaim, and create.
More than one book
The Firsts philosophy is still growing.
The Book of Firsts is the first expression of a larger body of work about attention, intentionality, relationship, and the courage to remain open to beginnings.
Firsts begins with a simple conviction: even familiar parts of life can become meaningful again when we remember what shaped us, reclaim what routine has hidden, and choose to keep creating together.
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