Harley Tanner, straight-to-camera portrait

The Book

Your marriage didn't end. It went quiet.

I'm Harley Tanner. Standing Orders is my thirty-day plan for the married man whose marriage turned into a roommate situation. One small mission a day, aimed at your wife. You run it solo.

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Divorced and starting over? Start here.

Married 3 times. Two amicable divorces. Now married to the right woman. I teach what finally worked.

A marriage doesn't die in a fire. It dies at room temperature.

You still live together. You run the logistics, raise the kids, split the chores. You are not fighting. You are just not close, and you cannot name the day it changed.

That is not a therapy problem. It is an operations problem, and an operations problem has a fix.

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Harley Tanner in chef whites, working a knife in a professional kitchen

I ran professional kitchens. Le Cordon Bleu trained. Pressure was the job.

Harley Tanner beside a blue race car in a shop

I raced professionally. You learn what you are made of at speed.

Harley Tanner with his wife in a kitchen

I was married three times and got it wrong twice before I got it right. What finally worked is what I teach.

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Two ways I help men.

Find the one that is you. No wrong door.

Married

Living like roommates.

You still want the marriage. You just cannot find the way back in. Standing Orders is a thirty-day plan you run solo, one small mission a day.

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Divorced

Starting over.

The divorce cost you enough. Who you build the rest of your life with is the highest-stakes call you have left. Date Like a Boss is how you run a real process.

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Field Notes.

Short dispatches on marriage, dating, and becoming a man worth staying with.

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