Conversations to Have Before Marriage & Major Life Changes
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
I’m joined by Melissa Fitch and Michelle Unger, the BFF duo behind The M Take pod. They’re both married to their long-time loves (a college boyfriend and a high school sweetheart!) and navigating motherhood, partnership, and friendship together. We dive into what they wish they talked about before getting married or pregnant, and how becoming parents at different times affected their friendship. Melissa opens up about feeling disconnected when Michelle was pregnant and she wasn’t, and how they found their way back to each other. We also get into what it really looks like to talk with your partner about finances, parenting philosophies, mental health, and family boundaries before making big life moves .
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:09.9 | This has been in the works. |
| 0:11.2 | We've been planning this for like four months now. |
| 0:13.3 | Who even knows? |
| 0:14.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.3 | And it's crazy because when we put it on the calendar, it seemed like it was years away. |
| 0:18.7 | Truly. |
| 0:19.2 | And now we're here. |
| 0:20.4 | I am on the couch with Mel and Michelle co-hosts, best friends. Beautiful. Primarily. Yeah. The MTV podcast. Yes. Guys, welcome. Thank you so much for having us. We're so excited to be here. I'm so excited to be here. I didn't everything shower this morning. Oh my God. That's a big deal. Right? It's a really big deal. And everything, B. YSO in the morning. In the morning, like, it's unprecedented. |
| 0:44.8 | Every single shower for seeing other people. This is a new milestone for the pod. I'm telling you. Like, it's big. It's like basically I'm going on like a date or like a wedding even, honestly. |
| 0:54.7 | Oh my God. |
| 1:01.9 | So I am really excited to have you guys for a few reasons. |
| 1:04.9 | But one of the reasons is you two are, first of all, like I feel like I know you. |
| 1:09.7 | Like you're just like you get it. Like and I feel like I know you. Like you're just like, you get it. Like, |
| 1:12.2 | and I feel like I look at you and like, you're what I want my future to be. And you guys are |
| 1:17.5 | living the life that so many of the seeing other people listeners like want. You know, |
| 1:21.6 | you're married. You have kids. You still have jobs that you love. Like you're thriving. And so |
| 1:26.7 | I love bringing on people who are where we want to go |
| 1:31.6 | where I want to be you cry yes I mean I there's a lot that makes me cry and I'm a feeler |
| 1:39.9 | thanks for letting me feel these feelings I love to cry as much you want. There's tissues in every corner of the department. |
| 1:45.9 | I'm a sniffly girl. |
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