Photo : Nathan + famille
Nathan Abbott, founder of Marriage Gravity
Why I built this
Ten thousand children fixed. And I nearly lost my own family.
In the winter of 2020, my wife came home and told me flatly that it couldn't go on. She was leaving, and taking our son Oscar with her. He was sixteen months old. I'm an entrepreneur, the man who fixes things. This was the first problem in my life I had no idea how to solve.
I found the work of a researcher on what he called the "growth of desire". Everything I'd been doing was wrong. Within three or four weeks, the tide turned. Two months on, she was warm again. Our second son, Michael, was born a year later.
In 2024 they gave me the British Empire Medal at Buckingham Palace. My wife beside me. But I was thinking about a kitchen table, four years before, and how close I came to losing all of it.