255 | Marriage isn't about your happiness

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today we tackled the countercultural topic that marriage isn’t just about your happiness. Oof, we know this one is a tough pill to swallow for a lot of people but in a world telling us to only pursue what makes us feel happy in the moment, we felt this episode was an important reminder that when it comes to your commitment to marriage, it’s always worth pursuing. We hope that whether you’re engaged, newlyweds, or have been married for a long time you find hope in this episode, knowing that marriage is a beautiful gift and wonderful tool for character refinement, compromise and selflessness- sometimes more than we’d prefer ;) Love you guys! Shawn & Andrew Check out SKIMS best intimates including the Fits Everybody Collection and more at https://www.skims.com/couplethings #skimspartner 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 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 #Marriage #Happiness #Refinement #Relationships #ShawnandAndrewPods 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.
0:02.4	With Sean and Andrew.
0:04.2	Today's podcast is all about how marriage is not about happiness.
0:10.0	That's right.
0:10.8	Which is probably our biggest argument we've ever gotten in.
0:14.1	I remember it was our fifth date, my first time in Iowa, and we're playing tennis.
0:20.5	Yeah. I don't know what park that was, but we're playing tennis.
0:23.2	And I said, Sean, I got to tell you something.
0:26.0	She was like, what?
0:27.0	We met at the net.
0:28.4	Yeah.
0:28.6	I was like, I'm not here to make you happy.
0:30.7	Who does that?
0:31.5	One, also disrespectful.
0:34.7	No, I mean, it's the delivery that makes a difference.
0:37.8	Bad timing.
0:39.7	That's right.
0:40.7	Those are all probably true things.
0:42.2	They were.
0:43.4	But.
0:44.0	And you still stand by it.
0:46.0	I do.
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