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Marriage

How We Anticipate Each Other’s Needs

Marriage isn’t always 50/50. In fact, in our marriage, there are times one partner is pulling the entire load.  Penn and I wrote a whole book about the marriage lessons we’ve learned through counseling and doing life together for the…

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Marriage Through Ted Lasso Quotes

When it comes to our marriage it sometimes feels like we “fell out of the lucky tree and hit every branch on the way down, ended up in a pool of cash and Sour Patch Kids.” Penn and I are…

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Treat Your Partner Like A Stranger

Penn and I have been married for 16 years, so we’ve gotten real comfortable with each other. (Like he sees me in 20-year-old sweatpants and still thinks I’m hot.) We have gotten so comfortable, in fact, that one day while…

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Know Your Fight Cycles

If there’s one thing Penn and I know for sure, it’s to not dive into deep conversations in the month of December. It almost always leads to an argument. We also try to avoid big discussions late at night when…

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Why I’m Sorry Sucks

A couple of years ago, Penn and I realized something while we were in one of our sessions with our marriage coach, Christopher Edmonston. We were having a lot of the same fights and never really coming to a resolution.…

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Decisions That Made Us

There’s a TikTok trend floating around right now with people telling how one small, unimportant decision has changed the trajectory of their lives. Most stories are funny or serendipitous, and it got me thinking: What were those moments for Penn…

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How to Ask For What You Want

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…

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9 Questions To Ask Your Partner In 2021

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…

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When to Push Through, and When to Pause

A major theme of this years’ Olympics has been mental health and the pressure athletes face. We wanted to know – what’s the right balance between working hard and performing, but also listening to your gut and taking care of…

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Marriage

What Our Vows Should Have Said

When we promised to love and cherish each other 16 years ago, we didn’t specifically promise to compromise and tolerate life’s everyday annoyances. I’m sure twenty-something Kim would have thought it was SUPER UNROMANTIC to make Penn promise to sleep…

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