TWIMC
I suggest that you start and end your dates with a kapitel Tehilim. This way you and your basherte can actually do your hishtadlus and have bitachon at the same time.
Please let me know how it goes.
I will try it as well as soon as it is shayach. But with covid I find it difficult if not impossible to go out.
Hamispalel for his chaver etc….we should see simchas.