About theicebreak

theicebreak helps couples increase understanding, excitement, and connection in their relationships. We provide them a way to quantify and visualize their relationships, creating charts that show the state of the relationship over time, By prompting couples to answer fun, engaging questions and send moments from the day to each other, we also encourage better communication between partners on and off the site.

The Team

Christina A. Brodbeck, Co-founder

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3 things that come to mind when I think of my boyfriend are: Cable Car Pizza, Star Trek Voyager, Coke (not Diet)

We have WoW (World of Warcraft) and a complicated Venn diagram of people we know in common to thank for how we met. He tried to impress me with a fireplace and wine, but instead I fell for his talk of video games, fantasy novels, and all things Apple.


Dwipal Desai, Co-founder

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3 things that come to mind when I think of my wife are: lazying around, watermelon and cats

Even though we have completely opposite tastes in most things like food, restaurants, movies, we still hit it off really well when we met. Eventually we realized that we were more alike than not—we are both easygoing, fun-loving and value the same things in life. We've been together for 6 years, married for 3, and hope to keep going for many more!


Shirley Morales, Visual Designer

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Three things that come to mind when I think of my boyfriend are: 1. MMA / Boxing fights, 2. Pizza, 3. Crushed bones.

Matt and I met online, via a popular social network. We have been together for over a year. One of the first things he said to me was that he loved to vacuum; I was pretty much his after that.


Carol Gunby, Editorial Director

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Three things that come to mind when I think of my partner are: gardening, great food, and traveling together

After 17 years, we still find ways to surprise and delight each other (and work through the hard stuff too). Who could have known that our bookstore jobs would work out so well?


Dr. Alice Boyes, Advisor & Clinical Psychologist

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Dr. Boyes is a social and clinical psychologist in private practice, writer, speaker, therapist, relationships expert, and internationally published author of original psychology research. She has worked as a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sussex in the UK and has her PhD in Psychology from the University of Canterbury.




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We are a young, seed-funded startup. We've been involved in companies like PayPal and YouTube in the past in UX, Product, Content, and Engineering roles. What we do here at theicebreak will have a direct impact on people's happiness.

You are passionate about technology and have a natural curiosity about how things work. You must be able to learn things on the fly and pick technologies up as needed.