Relationship Hot Takes

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Today we sat down and read some relationship headlines that we found super interesting and it ended up leading to great discussion! PLUS, we got to sit down with Mary Borman, the first woman with Down Syndrome training to compete in a half Ironman! She was absolutely incredible and the perfect way to kick off our newest segment of inspiring stories. Love you guys! Shawn and Andrew Follow along with Mary ▶ https://www.instagram.com/mermaid_maryborman/?hl=en Check out the SKIMS Ultimate Bra Collection and more at https://www.skims.com/couplethings #skimspartner Want the best pillow ever? Go to https://LagoonSleep.com/EASTFAM and take their awesome 2 minute sleep quiz to find your match. Use code EASTFAM for 15% off first purchase Get the most beautiful glass prints at FRACTURE! Check out https://fractureme.com/ and use our code COUPLE25 for 25% off your first order! Beam Kids is now available online at https://www.shopbeam.com/COUPLETHINGS Take advantage of our exclusive discount of up to 40% off using code COUPLETHINGS Email us ▶ [email protected] Follow our podcast Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/shawnandandrewpods/ Subscribe to our newsletter ▶ https://www.familymade.com/newsletter Follow My Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Follow My Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnjohnson Shop My LTK Page ▶ https://www.shopltk.com/explore/shawnjohnson Like the Facebook page! ▶ https://www.facebook.com/ShawnJohnson Follow Andrew’s Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast Andrew’s Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewdeast?lang=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things.
0:02.3	With Sean and Andrew.
0:03.4	Today's a fun one, potentially. I feel like every time we sit down to film one of these,
0:09.2	we script them to have like an idea of what we're talking about. You choose the one that's like
0:12.8	the most brain heavy. I'm sorry, but you know what? The last couple I've done that with,
0:20.4	we've had fantastic conversations. So welcome back to another one. Today is a little more recent news type vibe than we usually do. There's this up-and-coming trend that has been labeled dinks. Yeah. That has been circulating in news. There's like a bunch of CNBC news spots.
0:40.2	Dual income, no kids.
0:42.0	That's right.
0:42.4	That's right.
0:43.3	There's also a dating recession happening.
0:45.7	So we're just going to go through some of these headlines that we came across.
0:50.1	What we think about it as just a married old couple.
0:52.8	Yeah.
0:54.0	So this will be interesting.
0:55.2	But also in the middle of this episode, we are going to introduce one of our new segments.
1:00.4	We sit down with Mary Borman.
1:02.2	And we just think that there are certain phenomenal stories that are worth sharing.
1:07.5	And Mary's is one of them.
1:09.0	So stay tuned for that.
1:10.6	You're going to really enjoy that interview,
1:12.3	but that will be spliced in with this. And we're going to try to include more and more of
1:16.3	those special stories into episodes. And if you have any of those type of segments that you would
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