Mila Smith Founder of
Our Journey
Hi! We're Mila and Jeremy...
You’re not alone. We’ve been exactly where you are and we’ve lived that story ourselves.
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Whether you’re dating for the first time, finding your way back after divorce or a long relationship, or dating while juggling a demanding career and parenting, let's admit that most people are trying to navigate love without any real guidance.
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​Years ago, I was a single mum with a questionable relationship track record. Every now and again, I'd tweak my online dating profile with a sigh of despair, wondering if my match was out there, exasperated with the prospect of further dating.
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I used to think I was unlucky in love until I worked out it had nothing to do with luck...
Meanwhile, as a recently separated dad of two, I'd acquired a full recently-separated-kit at IKEA and was halfway through a difficult divorce, while dipping my toes in the treacherous waters of dating, asking myself a similar question:
"What am I doing wrong?”…
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It wasn’t all sunshine and roses at the start. Between us, we’d made enough poor decisions in the past to produce a new long-running TV series! It's amazing how many intelligent people stumble into dating blindly, having given it little or no thought, then rush into a relationship only to be bitterly disappointed.
We weren’t unhappy before we met, but every morning when we wake up in our lovely house amidst the English countryside and look at the amazing blended family we've created, we still have to pinch ourselves to realise it isn’t all a dream!
That is why we created From Single To Couple
We want you to be as happy as we are now and think: "Wow, this is what a relationship is supposed to feel like!" - loving, supportive and secure - and not like you’re walking on eggshells or pulling teeth.
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After her own patchy relationship history, Mila became increasingly curious about why some relationships thrive while others repeatedly go wrong. She started researching relationship science: what actually makes relationships work, what predicts long-term compatibility and why we can find ourselves repeating patterns that don’t serve us.
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That curiosity eventually led her to retrain as a certified science-based Relationship & Dating Coach, studying research-backed approaches to relationships and combining them with personal experience.
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Something became very clear: healthy love isn’t simply a matter of luck. Men and women have evolved many adaptations to attract a mate and reproduce, yet this is largely where nature's role ends. However, there are things we can learn to help us build better relationships through conscious choices.
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We’ve seen countless men and women around us wrestle with many of the same questions:
"How do I avoid getting hurt again?"
"How do I know who’s right for me?"
"What actually makes a relationship work?"
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And we became convinced there had to be a clearer, kinder and more intelligent way to approach love. So we brought together:
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Lived experience of dating, relationships, divorce and life as single parents
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Decades of science-backed relationship research
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Studies into compatibility and what makes relationships last
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Real-world insight into the challenges of modern dating
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Practical guidance, personal accountability and realistic expectations
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The result is an approach that doesn’t judge you or tell you what you “should” have done differently. It helps you understand what has shaped your choices, recognise what really matters in a healthy relationship, and make wiser, more confident decisions about what comes next. ​​You have more agency than you realise.​