Next year, Penn and I will have been married for 20 years. (I don’t know how this is possible considering, in my head, I am still 27 years of age.) It’s an incredible feat, but one that has come with…
As I write this, we are celebrating 19 years of pure, wedded bliss (do you hear the sarcasm?) NINETEEN YEARS. Our marriage is a freshman in college. Our marriage probably has a fake ID and makes bad decisions in bars.…
As a man who is a lifelong fan of the NFL, I have been here for every moment of the Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce romance. I have heard other men on our platforms call the coverage “exhausting” and I have seen…
Our biggest fights happen in December. There’s something about the crush of the holiday madness mixed with hectic work and parenting schedules that creates at least one massive blowout during the season. Even if there isn’t a screaming match across…
When Penn and I first got married we would tiptoe around one another a lot. We both wanted to make the other person happy all the time. So when it came to wanting to do something just for ourselves, we…
The last year has been…a lot. We spent more time together than ever before, so why does it feel like we haven’t had as many good conversations? (Yes, I know we wrote a book on communication in relationships… I see…
Early on in my marriage, if one of my friends would mention they were in marriage counseling I immediately assumed the worst. I thought, that will never be me. Even though I had started counseling in college for anxiety and…
According to market research, men rarely buy into self-help books. It is likely that mostly women have purchased our book so far (and we’re super excited they did!) but I want to make sure the dudes know that they may…
When Penn and I started writing this book two years ago, I pictured us tucked away in a log cabin, wearing cardigan sweaters, and typing away. We’d only stop to smile at each other and sip herbal tea. It was…
We share a lot of our lives online. It’s the shiny, happy, three minutes at a time sort of glimpses of our lives. It’s impossible to know the real us if you are only seeing us singing and dancing in…
