A language for expectations. A grammar for sharing them.

This is
Rōmational.

The logic behind relationships that work. Not a dating app.

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Rōmational® · Est. 2020
01 The Idea
Relationship expectations mean different things to different people. And you usually find that out much later than you'd like.

Tell someone you want something serious. They'll nod. Tell someone you want something casual. Same nod. Either way, neither of you has any idea whether you just agreed.

Two people can both know exactly what they want and still have no way to find out whether they want the same thing. The words we have — single, dating, in a relationship, married — describe paperwork. None of them say whether someone wants something clearly defined and low-stakes, or something open-ended and all-consuming.

Rōmational is the shared vocabulary, and the grammar for using it. A word for the kind of relationship that fits your life right now. Terms for the specifics inside it. And a way to set your answers beside someone else's — without judgment, and without a profile to perform on.

A new relationship, a twenty-year one, or none in particular. It works the same way.

02 The Language

A vocabulary. A grammar.
Same words. Same meaning.

RomType
What kind of relationship do you actually want, right now, in this life?

Twenty questions across twenty dimensions. Not the relationship that sounds good. The one that fits the life you're actually living. Your RomType is the word for the shape you're looking for, and it's expected to change as you do. A type that changed isn't an error. It's the most interesting thing in your record.

FlexScore
What do you need in a partner, and what really matters?

Dozens of factors, from children to cleanliness, finances to faith, conflict to communication. For each one you say what you prefer, and how firmly you hold it. That second question is the one nobody else asks, and it's the one that matters: two people who differ about marriage but are both flexible will be fine, while two who are immovable on the one thing they don't share are in trouble.

Connect
Ready to share? Only when you choose, only with whom you choose.

Everything stays private until you decide otherwise. When you're ready, two people scan a code — in the same room, across a table — and compare. Four steps. You can stop at any one of them. Nothing is shared without your explicit consent. This is the grammar: what makes two people's answers mean something side by side, including what they would find difficult about you, not only what you'd find difficult about them.

FACTOR SHAPE: every factor plotted as a coloured dot across a flexibility scale from Not at all to Extremely, clustered differently at each end.
Every answer, in one picture. Where the dots gather is where you don't bend.
03 In practice

Two people.
One honest process.

Step 2 of Marlin and Allie's Compare reveal: both of them are SCOM (Structured Committed), shown privately to each side, with the choice to continue to the next reveal or stop. See the full walkthrough →

Marlin and Allie each did the work on their own. Twenty questions, dozens of factors. Then they chose to compare. The system didn't pair them. It showed them, in stages, what they had each already said about themselves.

First, were they even looking for the same kind of relationship? Yes: both SCOM, Structured Committed. That meant the next conversation was worth having. Each step of the reveal showed only what the previous one had earned, designed to surface a mismatch as early as possible, before either of them had shared more than the situation warranted. They could continue, or stop, at any point.

Yes, continue with Marlin and Allie

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04 Who it's for

Not for everyone.
For anyone who'd rather know
than guess.

Dating apps are about being chosen.
Rōmational is about being understood.

People dating with intention — and people not dating at all. Knowing what you want is worth having either way, and the record is more honest when it's made away from any one person.
Couples, new or long-established, who want a shared language for the conversations that matter.
Anyone reassessing where they are after a major life change: a move, a loss, a new chapter.
Therapists, coaches, and counselors who want a structured starting point for their clients.
05 The Privacy Promise

Privacy isn't a feature here. It's the reason the answers are true. People write dating profiles for an audience, so they write what reads well. There is no audience here.

Your name is never required. Your results are never sold. Your profile is never shown to anyone without your explicit consent.

Nothing is published. No public profiles, nothing browsable, nothing a search engine can reach. There is no catalog of people here, because there is nothing to catalog. And no ads: we don't make money from your attention, so we have no reason to want your data.

Any connection you share can be withdrawn at any moment, by you, or by them. When either side withdraws, the connection ends for both. No ghosting, no residue, no leftover trace.

Your own record is yours to keep. You can see every connection you've made, every one you've archived, every one you've declined, in real time, always retrievable.

Every saved comparison is a record of the moment it happened. Your profile keeps growing as you do. Your past stays honest to who you were then. Nothing is ever rewritten without you.

What you build here is yours. A living, private record of who you are and what you want, updated as you change, kept only for you.

We will never take advantage of your honesty.

You have been figuring this out on your own for a long time.

You don't have to anymore.

No spam. No sharing. The only entry requirement is a willingness to be honest with yourself and with others.

Nobody gets through this in ninety seconds. Everyone here sat down and did the work honestly — that's what being romational means, and it's a signal you can't fake.

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