Standing Watch
Show up for her on the days you have nothing left.
A daily field manual for the partner of someone living with CPTSD. Two minutes a day — not a program, because you don’t have an hour and you never will.
Everything is built for the survivor. This is built for you.
You cook. You clean. You drive. You make the money. And at nine at night, when it goes sideways, you still freeze — because nobody ever told you what to do, and the last time you guessed it made things worse.
Standing Watch is the thing you actually needed: short, specific, and usable one-handed in a parking lot.
What’s in it
Every day
Five things that survive a fourteen-hour day. Hugs, asking about her day and staying for the answer, telling her specifically that she’s doing well, and saying the reassuring thing out loud.
Running on empty
One switch cuts the day down to two things. Nothing else counts against you. Some days that’s the honest version.
Right now
Sixteen situation cards for the moment it’s happening. She’s flooded. She’s gone quiet. It’s aimed at you. You just made it worse. Two or three things to do, two not to, and a line you can say.
What to say
Forty sentences to borrow when your own won’t come. Warmth, reassurance that lands instead of dismissing, and how to ask for something yourself.
Stack it, don’t add it
Connection welded onto what you were already doing. The long drive. The dishes. The store run. Same tasks, zero extra minutes.
Your side of the ledger
The part nothing else in this category will say: what you carry is real, it’s silent, and an hour a week to yourself is not a life.
Nothing you write ever leaves your phone.
A man is not going to type “I snapped at my wife tonight” into an app that asks him to make an account first.
So there are no accounts. No server. No analytics. No tracking of any kind. Every entry stays in your own phone’s storage and is never transmitted anywhere. We could not read your log if we wanted to, and we don’t want to.
It also works with no signal — the whole app lives on your phone once you install it.
Free, and full
- Free forever, no account: the daily five, the empty-tank switch, the nightly check-in and log, and one essential card from every category — and the crisis card, which is never locked.
- Full Watch: all sixteen cards, plus a new Fresh Watch card every month, the complete script library, the stacked-move library, the Ledger, the weekly frame, and unlimited history — plus new material as it’s written.
| Plan | Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $4.99 / mo | 7-day free trial |
| Annual | $39 / yr | Two months free |
| Founding | $79 once | Lifetime. First 200 only. |
Waitlist gets first access to founding pricing
Join the founding list
One email when it launches. Nothing else, ever. No newsletter, no drip sequence.
Standing Watch is a support tool. It is not therapy and not treatment. CPTSD improves with trauma-informed care from a qualified professional. This app helps a partner show up better; it does not replace that care, and it makes no clinical claims.
If you or someone you love is in crisis, contact your local emergency services. In the US, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.