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Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

What We've Learned Through 26 Years of Marriage

Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Nick Freitas

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.4743 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Tina and I just got back from a vacation celebrating our wedding anniversary. Here’s some of the things we’ve learned over the past 26 years of being together. Today, we’re going to talk about how marriage has changed since the 90s, what the keys are to a successful long-term marriage, and what advice we would give to young couples looking to get married today.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to making the argument. Today, today we're going to be discussing an important issue with respect to marriage. How do you make it work? Should you get married? His marriage changed a whole lot over time? I think everybody knows that. But we're going to get into some specifics. And why are we going to do this? Well, we were asked to because Tina and I just celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary. And we've been through some interesting times, both with

0:23.9

the way that we grew up, how young we got married, the fact that we went straight into the military,

0:28.5

which has one of the highest divorce rates ever, especially during time of war, moving 12 times,

0:33.8

like all the stressors you can possibly put on in marriage. All the stressors you can possibly put on a marriage. was more than 12, but okay. All the stresses you can possibly put on in marriage.

0:38.6

We managed to do it, most of it within the first like six years of our marriage.

0:42.8

And yet, and yet for some reason, probably blackmail, Tina has stuck with me.

0:47.3

And so we're going to be sharing some of our insights, what we did right, what we did

0:52.2

wrong, as well as answering some questions about those things, all on this episode of making the argument. I'm your host, Nick Fradis, with me in the studio, of course, my beautiful ride, Tina Queen of the Beans.

1:02.0

Hello, everyone. With us not in the studio is Christian, because he's on vacation. What a lazy slack. No, no, it's a long overdue vacation. And he is definitely entitled to it. And we hope

1:12.2

he does a great job and has a good time. Well, we just got back from vacation. So we got to allow him

1:17.7

to go on vacation too. We did. That's true. I suppose. I suppose we'll let him go as well.

1:22.8

Now, listen, I want to get to something really quick because we have a, we have a partnership

1:27.1

that we have gotten into.

1:28.9

It's not a marriage, but a partnership with Young America's Foundation.

1:32.3

And they have a very special offer coming out.

1:34.8

Now, some of you might know Young America's Foundation as the organization which runs the Reagan Ranch and Legacy.

1:42.7

If you've never been to the Reagan Ranch, it's super cool, super cool.

1:45.7

Really advise you to go out there, check it out.

1:48.7

But they also have Reagan's Boyhood Home in Dixon, Illinois.

1:52.4

And along with managing the ranch, the boyhood home, they actually run student chapters

1:57.1

all over the country.

1:58.1

Now, a lot of those chapters have been in colleges, but YAF is one of the few organizations that have actually reached out and started building

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