Notre histoire · our story
Built for the small moments that keep love alive.
A daily ritual app for couples who want to catch the drift before it becomes distance.
Letter from the founder
Built with intention, not from a boardroom.
I didn't build Soleil because I had relationships figured out. I built it because I understood how easy it is for people who love each other to slowly stop feeling connected.
Like a lot of couples, we've had to navigate stress, communication struggles, unresolved hurt, different upbringings, and the exhausting reality of trying to work through conflict while emotionally drained.
Most relationships don't fall apart all at once. They drift slowly — through postponed conversations, resentment, emotional distance, and forgetting to intentionally choose each other in everyday moments.
So I built Soleil.
A softer space for the conversations couples avoid until they become distance. For repair after conflict, emotional check-ins, reconnection, and learning how to understand each other before resentment takes over.
I can't promise Soleil will save a relationship.
But I do believe small moments matter more than people realize. And sometimes the difference between growing together and growing apart is whether you keep showing up for those small moments before the hard seasons arrive.
That's what Soleil is for.
A message in every tongue we share
— Junie, founder of Soleil
Why Soleil exists
For the cross-cultural
Two Worlds, One Love — prompts for couples translating each other across language, personality, and background.
For the repair-tired
Repair Room turns the 24-hour fight loop into a 10-minute, structured re-entry. Voice notes, not paragraphs.
For the quietly drifting
Tiny rituals — a 30-second check-in, a sunset spark, a memory tended — that protect warmth without demanding hours.
For the long-haul
Memory Garden, Time Capsules, milestone blooms. The app remembers the small things you'd otherwise forget.
La science
Warm on purpose. Built on research.
Soleil isn't a therapist and doesn't pretend to be one. It's a daily practice layer informed by EFT, NVC, Gottman, and Polyvagal frameworks — translated into prompts and repair steps small enough to actually finish.
We partner with licensed clinicians for ongoing content review. If you're a couples therapist interested in advising Soleil, we'd love to hear from you.
The four frameworks · in plain language
What Soleil is actually built on.
Not buzzwords. These are the four most validated bodies of work in couples psychology — translated into a daily ritual instead of a 50-minute session.
01 · Predict + Repair
Couples Communication Science
Four decades of observational research
Longitudinal studies of tens of thousands of couples have identified four communication patterns most strongly linked to relationship breakdown: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling. The same research mapped the soft start-up and the repair attempt — small bids that de-escalate conflict before it spirals.
How Soleil uses it
Soleil's Repair Room borrows the soft start-up and repair-attempt language. The 10-minute structure exists so the bid happens before the contempt does.
02 · Attachment
EFT — Emotionally Focused Therapy
Dr. Sue Johnson
Most fights aren't about the dishes or the text message — they're about attachment. Underneath is one question: Are you there for me? EFT helps couples move from surface-level blame to the underlying need for safety and connection.
How Soleil uses it
Maître Soleil uses this when it names the feeling beneath the fight — the longing, the fear, the bid for closeness — instead of refereeing the surface argument.
03 · Language
NVC — Nonviolent Communication
Marshall Rosenberg
Four moves: Observation → Feeling → Need → Request. Instead of "You never listen to me" (verdict, blame), NVC teaches "When you checked your phone during dinner, I felt unseen, because I need presence. Would you put it away for 20 minutes?"
How Soleil uses it
It's why Soleil's prompts ask about the body sensation, not the accusation. The Sunbeam, the repair flow, and the conversation decks all follow this scaffold.
04 · Nervous system
Polyvagal Theory
Dr. Stephen Porges
Our nervous system shifts between three states: social engagement (safe, connected), fight-or-flight (activated), and shutdown (frozen). Real conversation only happens in the first one — the "ventral vagal" state.
How Soleil uses it
Soleil Repose, the breath cues, and the slower repair rhythm are all designed to return both partners to that ventral-vagal place before any hard talk begins.
For clinical care, see a licensed therapist. Soleil supports the daily practice — not the diagnosis.
Meet Maître Soleil
Your warm in-app guide. Trained on the same frameworks above, tuned to the Haitian-French-American voice we grew up with. Maître is a reflective guide, not a licensed therapist. If a hard thing arrives, Support & Resources (under the You tab) is always one tap away.
Read Maître's loreFrom couples in the wild
What people say after a month with Soleil.
"The Sunbeam became our morning kiss before coffee. We hadn't done anything intentional together in years."
Naïka & Marc
Together 9 years · Brooklyn
"We used to fight for two days and pretend it didn't happen. The Repair Room is the only thing that ever broke that loop."
Priya & Devon
Together 4 years · Atlanta
"It's the first couples app that doesn't feel like homework. Maître talks to us in the kind of warmth my grandma used."
Sophie & Jean-Baptiste
Married 6 years · Montréal
Names changed for privacy. Couples gave written permission to share their words.
Built with care
Designed for every couple.
Soleil was created with a commitment to accessibility, inclusion, privacy, and emotional wellness. We believe relationship support should be available to everyone.
Accessibility & InclusionLet the light in.
Open SoleilCross-cultural couples · curious couples · long-haul couples