308 | Unfiltered Marriage Advice (From Real Questions You Sent In)

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5.0 • 39.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We asked you to send in your real, unfiltered marriage questions… and you delivered.In this episode, we’re diving into everything—arguments that keep coming back, intimacy struggles no one talks about, parenting differences, and more. Nothing scripted, nothing off-limits.If you’ve ever thought “is this normal in marriage?”—this one’s for you! Love you guys! Shawn & Andrew BranchBasics: If you’re grabbing the Premium Starter Kit, you can still get 15% off at BranchBasics.com with our code EASTFAM. Good Wipes: For more details, head to www.https://goodwipes.com/EASTFAM to snag a free pack of goodwipes from Walmart. TOUR! June 7th — Nashville June 8th — Philadelphia June 9th — New York June 10th — Chicago Get your tickets here! https://thecouragetocommit.com/ (00:00) “way to stay married!” (02:00) should we start a new series? (03:45) who is the most stubborn? (07:55) breaking and rebuilding trust (13:24) conflict when you’re on the same team (16:22) having friends of the opposite sex (25:40) boundaries with in-laws (28:20) navigating different parenting styles (31:45) our pet peeves with one another (35:55) keeping it spicy (37:17) best and hardest years of marriage (41:40) how often do we fight? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? Welcome back to Coupled Things. We're Sean and Andrew. Today is the part two of the live stream question and answer that we started two weeks ago. That's right, two weeks ago. And we loved the question so much. We wanted to make sure we got through them all. So we are here to finish out the questions. In the meantime, a little recap for you in the past two weeks. Since we started this, it was our 10-year anniversary.
0:24.0	Good job, babe.
0:25.0	Good job.
0:25.8	Way to stay married.
0:28.2	We are doing a big.
0:29.9	We are staying married.
0:32.0	Yes.
0:32.8	We're actually having a great time.
0:34.7	Yeah, it's fantastic.
0:36.1	I would highly recommend it.
0:37.2	And we went down to Cancun, Mexico. I stayed at Sec Yeah, it's fantastic. I would highly recommend it. And we went down to
0:38.6	Cancun, Mexico. Stead at Secrets, say the word? Moshe. Mochet. And it was a really fun time,
0:46.4	three days together, where we just sat and reflected and remembered and dreamed together and
0:54.0	asked questions. I think you probably got annoyed with me
0:59.0	with all the questions that we were going through. But I feel like I think it was a hundred
1:03.8	percent the opposite. I think verbatim, you were the guy who said, I don't want to talk anymore.
1:10.5	Remember that?
1:12.6	So way to put that on me.
1:14.2	I came in with a whole list of exercises for us to do.
1:17.3	And then I probably should have just chilled out.
1:19.6	We did enjoy our time.
1:21.0	We took a nap on the beach.
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