Introducing Couplish: Like Google Translate, but for your relationship
If you’ve ever heard “I’m fine” when everything is very much not fine, congrats—you’ve encountered Couplish: the secret language of long-term love. From baby talk to "Did you take the bin out?" side-eye, Couplish is the sweet, strange, and slightly shady dialect your partner directs at only you. And now, for the first time ever, it has its own translator.
What exactly is Couplish?
Think of it as your relationship’s private dialect. You’ve known each other so long, you can have entire conversations without actually saying what you mean. Sometimes it’s sweet. Sometimes it’s absurd. Often, it’s a little passive-aggressive.
Our recent survey found:
87% of couples admit they say one thing but mean another.
53% have used “I’m fine” to mean the opposite in the past 3 months.
54% use Couplish to avoid conflict altogether.
Plus, 68% would use a tool to decode it.
Meet the Couplish Translator
We built the Couplish Translator to decode what’s really going on beneath those perfectly polite phrases. Think Google Translate, but for your relationship.
From “Do whatever you want” (translation: I dare you, and we’ll talk about it later) to “It’s not a big deal” (translation: it’s a huge deal), the translator reveals the truth behind 12 of the most-used Couplish phrases.
According to a survey we ran asking our users, these are the top 10 phrases couples say instead of saying what they actually mean:
Top 10 phrases couples use instead of saying how they really feel
Why we made it
Couplish is part love language, part survival tactic. As Paired’s Head of Relationships, Aly Bullock, puts it: “Like Couplish itself, Paired’s new Couplish Translator comes from a place of love,” says Bullock. “We want it to help couples understand each other better and keep their relationship fun and strong.”
Ready to translate your relationship?
Try the Couplish Translator now and share your funniest results using #Couplish. You might just find that decoding your partner’s “No worries” leads to fewer misunderstandings—and maybe even some laughs along the way.
Because great relationships aren’t about avoiding Couplish. They’re about knowing when to translate it.
