# Fieldwork Editions > Independent PDF field guides on love, family, and modern life. Read an opening excerpt and keep your full guide after secure checkout. English-language digital guides. Purchase through the catalog; paid PDFs are delivered through private order links. [Open catalog](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/) · [Recover purchases](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/orders) · [Site map](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/sitemap.xml) ## The Yes Tax The hidden cost of saying yes to everything — and four scripts to say no without starting a war. - Category: Society - Format: PDF; 34 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#the-yes-tax-en) Opening excerpt: Say it's Tuesday. Your coworker asks if you can cover her shift Saturday — the one you'd already blocked off, quietly, as the first weekend in six weeks with nothing on it. You say yes before you've finished hearing the question. ## The Anatomy of Staying What the couples who make it past year fifteen actually do differently — and it isn't romance. - Category: Love & Relationships - Format: PDF; 30 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#the-anatomy-of-staying) Opening excerpt: Ask a couple married thirty-one years what kept them together, and you rarely get romance. You get logistics: who does the dishes, who remembers the anniversary, who apologizes first. ## How to Argue Without Breaking Anything Repair scripts for the same three fights every couple keeps having, over and over. - Category: Love & Relationships - Format: PDF; 28 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#how-to-argue-without-breaking-anything) Opening excerpt: Every couple ends up fighting about the same three things: money, time, and who felt less heard. ## Who Gets Believed A field study in credibility: whose account gets taken as fact, and whose gets cross-examined. - Category: Society - Format: PDF; 32 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#who-gets-believed) Opening excerpt: In 2019, two witnesses gave nearly identical testimony. One was believed immediately. The other spent four years being cross-examined. ## The Invisible Map of the Family The family roles we inherit without ever choosing them — and how they get rewritten. - Category: Culture - Format: PDF; 30 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#the-invisible-map-of-the-family) Opening excerpt: Nobody sits you down at eight years old and explains your place in the family. You just absorb it: who takes care of things, who decides, who stays quiet. ## Research You Can Use A plain-language field guide to telling a solid study from a headline dressed up as one. - Category: Research & Education - Format: PDF; 28 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#research-you-can-use) Opening excerpt: A headline says coffee cures anxiety. The study says twelve graduate students felt slightly calmer after one cup. ## The Loneliness Ledger What thirty years of isolation data say, and the four interventions that actually move the number. - Category: Society - Format: PDF; 34 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#the-loneliness-ledger) Opening excerpt: Isolation doesn't show up as sadness first. It shows up as smaller circles — one fewer call a month, one skipped dinner, one text left on read. ## What Nobody Tells Men About Grief The grief that has nowhere to go when the script says men aren't supposed to need to feel it. - Category: Love & Relationships - Format: PDF; 32 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#what-nobody-tells-men-about-grief) Opening excerpt: He came back to work four days after the funeral. Everyone said he was "handling it well." Nobody asked what handling it actually looked like at 2 a.m. ## The Invisible Load A field log of the unpaid, unnamed labor that keeps households running — and who's still carrying it. - Category: Society - Format: PDF; 34 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#the-invisible-load) Opening excerpt: She wasn't tired from the laundry. She was tired from remembering that it needed doing, scheduling it, checking it got done, and doing it herself when it didn't. ## The Merge What actually breaks first when two people combine a life — and it's rarely the thing couples argue about out loud. - Category: Love & Relationships - Format: PDF; 28 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#the-merge) Opening excerpt: Six months after the wedding, Mara opened a joint statement and didn't recognize half the charges. They'd merged bank accounts. They hadn't merged the rules. ## The Correction Reflex Why the average parent corrects a child eight times for every one time they notice something going right. - Category: Parenting & Family - Format: PDF; 32 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#the-correction-reflex) Opening excerpt: She set the table without being asked. Nobody said anything. Ten minutes later she spilled the milk, and three people said something at once. ## Homework Isn't the Problem The nightly homework fight is almost never about the homework. It's about something else nobody's named yet. - Category: Parenting & Family - Format: PDF; 30 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#homework-isnt-the-problem) Opening excerpt: Every night at seven, the same war over math homework starts. Parents think the problem is multiplication. The real problem almost never is. ## Money Between Us Talk about money, compare shared costs, and write an agreement you can use. Four guided sessions, three worked cases, eight fillable worksheets, and an offline calculator. - Category: Love & Relationships - Format: PDF; 46 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#money-between-us) Opening excerpt: It is a small purchase. A delivery order, a weekend away, a subscription neither of you remembers approving. One person asks, “Did we need that?” The other hears, “You cannot be trusted.” Within minutes, you are talking about everything except the amount. ## The Teenage Silence Connect when every question ends with “I don’t know.” Practical scripts, three worked cases, eight fillable worksheets, twelve conversation cards, and a flexible 14-day practice plan. - Category: Parenting & Family - Format: PDF; 39 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#the-teenage-silence) Opening excerpt: You ask about school. Your teen shrugs. You ask again, this time with more urgency. A small attempt to connect has become an argument about why they never talk. This guide starts with the part you can change: what happens on your side of that exchange. ## When Your Parents Need You Care for the people who once cared for you. Practical conversations, three worked cases, ten fillable worksheets, twelve conversation cards, and a flexible first-week care plan. - Category: Parenting & Family - Format: PDF; 44 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#when-your-parents-need-you) Opening excerpt: At first, it may not look like caregiving. You make a phone call because the insurance letter is confusing. You take an afternoon off for an appointment. You start checking your phone before bed. Then a collection of favors becomes a role you never quite agreed to, with responsibilities nobody has put into words. ## When a Friendship Ends Find your footing after losing a friend. Practical contact decisions, three worked cases, ten fillable worksheets, twelve conversation cards, and tools for mutual friends and shared spaces. - Category: Love & Relationships - Format: PDF; 44 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#when-a-friendship-ends) Opening excerpt: You reach for your phone to tell her something, then remember. There is no longer an easy place to put the small news of your day. Perhaps you argued. Perhaps the invitations stopped. Perhaps you chose to leave and still miss her. The ordinary moments can make the ending feel new again. ## When Love Keeps You Guessing Find clarity in mixed signals, communication, and commitment. Three worked cases, ten fillable worksheets, twelve conversation cards, plus an eight-page conversation lab. - Category: Love & Relationships - Format: PDF; 44 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#when-love-keeps-you-guessing) Opening excerpt: An unanswered message can become the center of your day. This guide helps you separate facts from assumptions, ask direct questions, notice follow-through, and decide whether the relationship on offer fits your needs. ## Still Trying to Make Her Proud Choose your own life while navigating maternal approval, guilt, and boundaries. Three worked cases, ten fillable worksheets, twelve conversation cards, plus an eight-page autonomy practice lab. - Category: Parenting & Family - Format: PDF; 44 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#still-trying-to-make-her-proud) Opening excerpt: You have thought through the decision. Then your mother sounds disappointed, and suddenly you reconsider everything. Practice keeping your own judgment visible while taking love, culture, responsibility, and practical dependence seriously. ## I Don’t Feel Like Myself A practical and emotional companion to perimenopause. Ten fillable worksheets, three worked cases, twelve conversation cards, plus a twelve-page symptom and appointment journal. - Category: Society - Format: PDF; 44 pages - Price: USD 27.00 - Availability: Available - [View guide and purchase](https://fieldworkeditions.shop/#i-dont-feel-like-myself) Opening excerpt: You feel different, but it is hard to explain in a short appointment. Describe changes and their daily impact, ask for practical support, and prepare for a clearer healthcare conversation. Specifically focused on perimenopause.