The Boyfriend Log is a new application from Dream It Green, LLC, that offers you the opportunity to color code your good days, bad days, and going-half-mad days in an easy-to-reference tool that is good for diagnosing relationship problems. The application to anyone considering the decision to file for divorce is clear.
Users of The Boyfriend Log can keep a daily journal detailing how they feel about their relationships — choices include “amazing,” “angry,” “flat,” “happy,” and “sad.” You can use it to track multiple relationships, which comes in handy when you have a lot of friends or you’re dating. According to the Huffington Post, The Girlfriend Log (for men and women who date women) will be available before the end of the month.
App Origins
Generation Green and Lives Charmed author Linda Sivertsen created the app after looking back on her own romantic experiences and failed relationships.
Sivertsen originally married at age 23, and maintained a journal on her computer, “but would often erase negative entries after the fact,” HuffPo reported, adding that, following the divorce papers, “she began a new diary when she started dating again — this time with no take-backs.”
“I promised myself I’d never again miss a day,” Sivertsen said. “I’d force myself to record how I was feeling and what was really going on no matter how much I wanted to whitewash.” That commitment eventually led to Sivertsen noticing patterns. “I’d look at the text in my diary and get lost. So much good, but so much sadness, anger. I knew there were patterns, but I couldn’t decipher them. Until I thought to color code the days. That’s when my patterns, our patterns, became crystal clear. In living color I saw that the romance was all but dead, he barely showed up for me, and hadn’t in a long time. The only good days (green) were on weekends, and those lessened too. The ocean of blue days (sad) staring me in the face was impossible to ignore.”
Empowering Young Women
It’s Sivertsen’s hope to “empower young women,” though The Girlfriend Log could very well do the same for the opposite sex. “Rather than falling in love with the look of something or the story we tell ourselves, I’m hoping young women learn to take care of themselves early on,” she told HuffPo. “That [way], they never have to wake up in midlife realizing they left their feelings in the hands of someone who wasn’t equipped.”
Analytical married types can also use these apps to determine the trajectory of their marriage and address issues before filing divorce forms becomes a possibility. The app is currently available through iTunes.