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Committed

Committed

Jo Piazza

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

Overview

Join host Jo Piazza as she delves into the hilarious, heartbreaking and inspiring stories of couples of all kinds who’ve soldiered through unimaginable circumstances, and after the longest of days, still want to wake up next to one another in the morning.

151 Episodes

Her Ex Business Partner

Emily and Matthew built a life—and a restaurant empire—together. They met in 2001, young and full of dreams, and by 2013, they had opened their first restaurant, Emily, in Clinton Hill. Success followed, with multiple locations and growing acclaim. But behind the scenes, their marriage was falling apart. Facing both personal and professional uncertainty, they had to answer an impossible question: Could they stay business partners while ending their marriage? In this episode, Emily joins us alongside her new husband, Jeff, to share how he supported her through the painful transition, helped her process the past, and built a stronger foundation for their future. It’s a story about love, loss, and the courage to rebuild—both in business and in life. Emily’s book of poetry, Divorced Business Partners, is available wherever books are sold.

Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2025

In Sickness and in Strength

In this episode of Committed, we sit down with Jordyn Glick and Dakota Heath to explore their journey through love, resilience, and the challenges of young adult caregiving. Jordyn was diagnosed with gastroparesis, a chronic condition that affects stomach function and significantly impacts her daily life. Her partner, Dakota, stepped into the role of primary caregiver, navigating the emotional and logistical complexities that come with supporting a loved one through illness. Together, they share their candid experiences of balancing their relationship with the demands of Jordyn’s health, the sacrifices they've made, and the unwavering commitment that has strengthened their bond. This episode delves into the realities of caregiving at a young age, offering an inspiring perspective on love, perseverance, and the power of partnership.

Transcribed - Published: 25 January 2025

Mother-Daughter Bonds: Navigating Heartbreak and Healing

After Suzy's husband of 30 years leaves her for an old flame, she navigates through immense grief with her daughter Hallie's unwavering support. What to Do When You Get Dumped is available wherever books are sold.

Transcribed - Published: 16 January 2025

Broadway Husbands

In this episode of Committed, Jo Piazza sits down with Stephen and Bret, better known as the Broadway Husbands. Together, they share their journey of love, partnership, and navigating the highs and lows of life in the spotlight. From balancing demanding careers on Broadway to embracing their roles as creators and partners, Stephen and Bret open up about the challenges they've faced and the unwavering bond that keeps them moving forward. This is a heartfelt and inspiring look at how love can thrive under the bright lights of Broadway and beyond.

Transcribed - Published: 10 January 2025

New Year's Resolutions

New Year’s resolutions are kind of dumb. But setting intentions for better relationships any time of the year is a good thing. Jo and Nick have a candid conversation about how they want to be better partners in 2025 and astrologer Ophira Edut tells us what the stars predict for all of our relationships for the next year.

Transcribed - Published: 31 December 2024

The Best of Celebrity Committed

Today we're bringing you some of the highlights from our favorite celebrity interviews. We've been lucky enough to be invited inside the homes of some of the biggest stars of the stage and of the big and small screens. And if I've learned anything from them, it's that love, marriage and commitment is hard and complicated and also beautiful and wonderful no matter how famous you are or how much money you have.

Transcribed - Published: 24 December 2024

Obsessions & Compulsions Update

In their first appearance on Committed, Mike and Nicole Conforto opened up about how Mike’s severe OCD turned their lives upside down. His obsessive fears for his infant son's safety spiraled into debilitating panic attacks and constant anxiety, straining their marriage and making parenthood an overwhelming challenge. The episode delved into Mike's diagnosis, their struggles as a family, and the long road toward managing his condition. In this follow-up, Mike and Nicole share how life has changed since their initial conversation. They discuss the progress Mike has made in therapy, how they continue to navigate the ups and downs of OCD as a couple, and the lessons they’ve learned about resilience and support. This candid update offers a deeper look into their ongoing journey, providing hope and insight for families facing similar challenges.

Transcribed - Published: 18 December 2024

You're My Greatest Cheerleader

Childhood friendships are often the most formative of our lives. But they change and evolve as we get older and enter different seasons. Maureen, Anne and Amanda have been friends since kindergarten. As adults, their friendships ebbed, and flowed as they went to college, started careers, fell in love and got married. Amanda even became a pretty famous Hollywood actress. But then the three women found themselves pregnant with their first babies at the same time and it was a life change that brought them closer than ever. That's when they decided to take their commitment to the next level. They decided that the three of them would start a business together. Today we're talking about how to maintain a lifelong commitment, a lifelong friendship that starts at five years old and then evolves in so many different ways. And how do you balance that friendship with launching a business together?

Transcribed - Published: 11 December 2024

Cape Chased

Today's episode is something pretty magical. Literally. Today we're talking to Francis and Lindsey, a couple of married magicians who make magic together both on and off the stage.

Transcribed - Published: 27 November 2024

Mom and Son Hike the Appalachian Trail

What would it take for a sixteen year old boy to hike the entire Appalachian trail with his mom? That's what we are talking about today with Jessica and Largo, the mother and son duo we chatted with last week about traveling the world as a family. Jessica and Largo saw their relationship and their bond change and evolve during their months together on the trail. Sometimes Jessica was the caregiver and sometimes it switched to Largo. Sometimes they talked about everything under the sun and sometimes they were silent for days on end. They bother emerged from this journey changed and ready for the next phase in their relationship when Largo leaves the family nest.

Transcribed - Published: 20 November 2024

The World is Our Oyster

As a parent, how do you transcend the regular run of the mill parent/child relationship? How do you turn your bond into a real friendship? When Jessica's two kids were young, she pulled them out of traditional school, began homeschooling them and started traveling abroad. They left the U S a decade ago in search of a more authentic path. Since then they've lived in an RV in Europe for three years, learned to sail and crossed the Atlantic together as a family. This has been challenging and insane and also delightful and wonderful. Today we're talking to Jessica and Largo, her 17-year-old son, about how this lifestyle has strengthened their bond. This is the first in a two-part episode. In the first episode we dig into the foundation of their relationship and next week are getting into the mother-son duo's decision to hike the Appalachian trail together.

Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2024

Bringing Her Home

Janae and Tricia are sisters in law. That means they're related by marriage, but they didn't have to choose each other. They didn't have to choose their bond or their commitment or their friendship. But they did. And for years, the two of them have been each other's rock. Back in September of 2023, this bond helped them get through an unimaginable tragedy. Trisha was camping with her family in upstate New York when her nine-year-old daughter Charlotte was abducted from the campground. Over the next 47 hours Trisha and her family went through the worst possible thing that parents can go through. Janae, took over the reins of the investigation.She knew that she had to be the strong one. This is a story of courage and bravery and love. It’s also the story of the commitment between two women who would stop at nothing to bring a little girl home.

Transcribed - Published: 6 November 2024

It's OK to Cry

Vince and Madison met the way a lot of millennials are meeting these days—on Hinge. Vincent Madison, it met in the way that a lot of millennials are meeting these days. On hinge. They went on one date and they've spent every single day together since then a year and a half ago. Vince and Madison are still young and they're still toeing the waters of this commitment thing, but they are in it! Not too long after they got together their relationship went viral when Madison posted a video of Vince crying on TikTok. It went viral and racked up more than 4 million views.

Transcribed - Published: 30 October 2024

Holding Onto Hope

Back in 2018 we talked to Kristy and Buddy Woodall. If you don't remember that episode, on March 16, 2001 Buddy Woodall was arrested for the double murder of Lavelle Lynn and Robert Van Allen which would be known in Georgia as the Labor Day Murders. Buddy is currently serving three consecutive life sentences and still claims his innocence. This week are are catching up with Kristy to talk about how she still holds onto hope for Buddy's release even though it gets harder every single day.

Transcribed - Published: 23 October 2024

Work Wives

Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur met in college in 2002. They bonded instantly. Fast-forward to 2010 when they founded the popular fashion and design website Of a Kind. Since then the two women have created many, many things together, most recently the publishing company, 831 Stories. They are business partners and lifelong friends. This season we're expanding the scope of Committed. Because not all commitment resides within a marriage. In many ways a business partnership is like a marriage and frankly, a marriage is also like a business partnership. There's so much we can learn from all different kinds of commitment. And that's what we'll be exploring in the coming months. Today, we're going to talk to Claire and Erica about creating and building things together and the lessons a business partnership can give a romantic partnership.

Transcribed - Published: 16 October 2024

Revisiting Samantha

Many of our committed guests have become like family to us. We've stayed in touch and followed their journeys. Some of the pairs have stayed together and some haven't. That's the cycle of commitment. Love doesn't have to last forever to be beautiful and to contribute to our lives. When we first met Samantha (episode SUDDENLY SAMANTHA), she had just transitioned. After 13 years of marriage, Samantha and her wife, Laura, we're adjusting to how that transition would impact their marriage. Laura and Samantha eventually split up and Samantha began navigating the world as a single lesbian woman. Today we are talking to Samantha four years later about how she has rebuilt her life and found love again.

Transcribed - Published: 9 October 2024

Love Can Conquer All

This is the first of one of our BEST OF COMMITTED episodes. We're going to be compiling different shows on various themes in the hopes of both inspiring you and perhaps starting a conversation. One of the things that's amazed me about the couples on this show is the ability for love and commitment to withstand some of the worst tragedies that you could ever imagine. And it's these episodes that have personally given me hope in some really dark times.

Transcribed - Published: 28 September 2024

What Makes a Great Marriage

What makes a great marriage, or even a good marriage? Today we're talking to Frances Mayes, bestselling author of the mega-hit novel Under the Tuscan Sun which has been a touchpoint for women going through any kind of life change or reinvention for nearly 30 years. Now Frances has a new novel called A Great Marriage, to which she brings a lifetime of wisdom from her own two marriages and her parents' tumultuous union. I adore this quote from the book: "You can hammer out a good marriage. Great is a whole other thing. Boiled down, way down, a great marriage happens when two people are big enough to want more for the partner than they want for themselves. Not just as much. More.”

Transcribed - Published: 12 August 2024

The Beautiful Version of You

What happens when you meet the right person at the wrong time? In this heartwarming episode, Nina and Mario recount their love story that began with a chance meeting in Central Park in 1999. From exchanging shy hellos to an unexpected reunion two decades later, their romance is straight out of a movie. Discover how they reconnected after years apart, overcame personal challenges, and are now planning the adventure of a lifetime together. This is a journey of love, separation, and a beautiful reconnection that brought two passionate souls back together when they needed one another the most.

Transcribed - Published: 19 July 2024

From Casablanca to Timbuktu to the Catskills

Casey and Steven met on a study abroad program in Morocco when they were juniors in college. After school they traveled to Beijing to teach English and then to Mali to live in Timbuktu. Travel does something to a relationship. It creates intimacies and speeds up the way we learn about one another. Now, two decades later, Casey and Steven have opened an Inn together in the Catskills, they have two daughters and they have found a sense of balance and give and take in their relationship that allows the other one to thrive.

Transcribed - Published: 7 June 2024

Love Letters with Gov. Maura Healy

Today we have a very special episode of the podcast Love Letters in our feed. Ever since Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey was a kid, music has played a major role in her life. “Eye of the Tiger” got her pumped for basketball games. She caught sets from Joan Baez and Melissa Etheridge working as a cocktail waitress. When she came out in her early 20s, she found solace in the Indigo Girls. These days, the governor uses music to center herself, especially at hard moments. She and her partner, Joanna Lydgate, sit down with Meredith to talk about how music helps them in their lives and in their relationship.

Transcribed - Published: 8 May 2024

We're All In This Together

Jessica found out her husband Steve was gay a year and a half into her marriage. They broke up, got back together and tried to make it work because they were living in a very conservative Christian community. And in the midst of it all she met Matt and fell hard for him. Eventually Jessica and Matt got together and today they work with Jessica's ex-husband Steve on a podcast. They share stories of love, marriage, coming out, divorce, remarriage, and co-parenting to help others know they are not alone. They are trying to break down stereo-types about what divorce and co-parenting look like every single day. It isn't always easy and it definitely isn't always perfect but they are constantly trying to find new ways to support one another.

Transcribed - Published: 17 April 2024

Partners in Everything

For the past five years, Alex and Christina had been running a bookstore that is both their primary income as a couple and their passion. They opened A Novel Idea, bookshop in Philly, a year before the pandemic hit. And when the city closed all of its stores, they had to completely rethink everything about their small business. They had no one to lean on, but one another. For better. Or worse. This is a story about perseverance and pivoting, about love and about following your dreams. It's about how the things that should break us often bring us closer together.

Transcribed - Published: 21 March 2024

It's All About Showing Up

Molly and Ash met when Molly was in her late thirties, newly separated from her husband and the mother of a four year old. She was just started to explore her sexuality and wasn’t looking for anything serious. But you know what they say…make plans and the universe laughs. Molly and Ash fell in love and quickly knew they wanted to be together, but that meant navigating how to blend a family and reconciling the fact that Ash wanted their own biological child and Molly did not want any more kids. The two of them are here today (and spoiler, they have a new baby) because they put in the work. Their story is a gorgeous narrative of the ways we need to change, adapt and grow for love and family.

Transcribed - Published: 6 March 2024

The Addiction No One Talks About...

Manny struggled with porn addiction for years. He told himself that when he met the right woman he would be done. Then he met Becca and knew she was the one. But the night before his wedding he was still watching porn and he was so far gone in his addiction that he couldn't perform sexually on his wedding night. Manny and Becca struggled with Manny's porn addiction for years until both of them finally reached a breaking point. This is the story about how they made it out the other side.

Transcribed - Published: 21 February 2024

Why Don't You Leave Him?

The FBI came to Carl and Amy Nelson's house in the middle of the pandemic. That's when Carl found out that he was under investigation for a federal crime. Over the next two years, the couple had most of their money and assets seized by the government. What wasn't taken, they had to sell to pay for lawyers. They lived in constant fear of the FBI returning one morning and arresting Carl in front of their four daughters. And to this day, both Amy and Carl insist that Carl has done nothing wrong, and he has yet to actually be charged with a crime. But still the two of them have had their lives ripped apart in ways that could have completely destroyed their marriage. People ask Amy all the time. Why are you still with him? People can't believe she stuck by his side. She can't imagine not doing it.

Transcribed - Published: 14 February 2024

Thank you.

We're closing out the Committed podcast with an intimate look back at our favorite episodes. Join host Jo Piazza and producer Ramsey Yount as we recount the shows that made us laugh, the ones that made us cry and the one that has helped save Jo's own relationship. This has been an incredible journey with all of you. Thanks for listening.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 22 August 2022

Reaching for Joy

In 2006 Lee Woodruff got the phone call that no wife ever wants to get. Her husband Bob, then the co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight, had been hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq. In the explosion of rocks and metal, Bob was critically injured, sustaining shrapnel wounds to the head. He was evacuated to Bethesda Maryland where he was put into a medically induced coma for five weeks to allow his brain to heal. Bob and Lee had already been together for a long time, they had four young kids and Lee had no idea what their life would look like moving forward. Lee recounts her love story and their family's journey beautifully in her New York Times bestseller In an Instant, but I have to say that there was nothing like hearing both Bob and Lee tell their story together in this interview. This is a story about the unexpected, both the unexpected tragedies that upend our lives, but also the unexpected joy that we find in the aftermath of those tragedies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 10 August 2022

A Compassionate Goodbye

In April of 2020 the writer Amy Bloom traveled to Switzerland to help her husband Brian die with dignity before he was plunged into the long term suffering of living with a dementing disease. She writes about their late in life romance and how she helped Brian to end his life in her gorgeous memoir In Love. This story hits close to home for any of us who have ever watched a loved one suffer and felt helpless to try to alleviate their pain. My own dad was bed ridden with muscular dystrophy for eight years before he finally passed in 2016 and I know that if I could have, I would have done anything to help him do what he wanted to do to have a more dignified death. That is exactly what Amy managed to do. Her story isn't always easy to hear, but I promise it will stick with you for a long, long time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 27 July 2022

Platonic Life Partners

Last fall Renee moved from Singapore to Los Angeles to be with her partner April. April calls it a grand gesture and it certainly is. But it was confusing to a lot of people because Renee and April aren't in a romantic relationship. At all. And yet they do consider themselves life partners. The two women have been best friends since they were teenagers and they now consider themselves platonic life partners. But our society doesn't really recognize that as a thing. Committed is a podcast about love stories, and here's the thing. This IS a love story. We talk so much about romantic love in our culture. We see romantic love in movies and books and songs...so many songs. And yet we rarely talk about the lifelong friendships that are the backbones of our lives. The ones that often last much longer than a marriage. Today we do.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 20 July 2022

Provocatively Marred

On their first date Tony Dokoupil said to Katy Tur, "So, we both have crazy parents." This was wildly refreshing for Katy to hear and for Tony to say at the start of a relationship. Any of you with crazy parents will understand how much easier it is to be with someone who also has an unorthodox family. As she recounts in her stunning new NY Times bestselling memoir Rough Draft, Katy's parents were the first helicopter news pilots in Los Angeles; they covered some totally insane stuff from the OJ Simpson police chase to the LA Riots, often with Katy along for the ride. Her dad was brilliant and volatile and often abusive. Tony's dad was a multinational drug smuggler who used the drug money to fund Tony's fancy education and privileged childhood. Getting it all out in the open was the start to their relationship. But there were bumps along the way. Tony was divorced with two kids. He didn't know if he wanted more and if he didn't that was a dealbreaker for Katy. At the time Katy was a rising star in the news world covering the 2016 Trump campaign and Tony was struggling with what to do next in his career. They were both on the road all the time. But they figured it out. They fell in love, got married, had babies, living and worked through COVID, supported one another's careers and it all began with Tony saying, "we've both got crazy parents." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 13 July 2022

Obsessions & Compulsions

For Mike Comforto, the worry and the anxiety over his infant son completely took over his life and his marriage. He was constantly convinced that the baby was in near fatal danger and those fears only intensified when he and his wife Nicole had a second child. Once he was having panic attacks and anxiety episodes every single day Mike was diagnosed with OCD and his road to recovery was a long process that is still ongoing today. The term OCD gets thrown around a lot, but we rarely think about the impact that it can have on an individual, and their spouse and their children. Mike and his wife Nicole had to learn how to tame his crippling panic otherwise they'd never be able to thrive as parents of two children or as husband and wife.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 6 July 2022

Love & Basketball

Renee Montgomery is a basketball legend. She won two WNBA championships with the Minnesota Lynx. Today she's a part owner and Vice President of the WNBA team the Atlanta dream and a social justice activist. Renee talks a lot about the many, many ways that basketball has changed her life, including getting to meet her wife, the singer Sirena Grace. Meeting Sirena at an Atlanta Hawks game completely changed Renee's life in myriad ways and the two women wake up every day thinking about how they can each support the other's dreams, goals and personal brand. I love this story because Renee seems so tough on the outside, but when you get to know her she is a hopeless romantic who found her soulmate when she least expected it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 29 June 2022

Stranger Love

Sarah and Eric became foster parents in the hopes of one day adopting. And when baby Coco came into their lives it looked like it could be for good. But that wasn't the case. Caring for Coco became much messier, more challenging and more difficult than Eric and Sarah ever expected, mainly due to the fact that the foster system continually told them that they would likely be able to adopt Coco and then completely blindsided Sarah and Eric by pushing for reunification with Coco's birth mother who they called a "bad prospect" for getting her child back. Sarah writes about this heartbreaking situation so beautifully in her book Stranger Care, the title of which was inspired by how the foster system refers to the non-relative men and women caring for the hundreds of thousands of children in their care every year. Sarah and Eric had to learn a new kind of love, not just a love for baby Coco, but also a love for her birth mother Evelyn, in order to give Coco the best possible life she could have. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 22 June 2022

A Good Life Together

Erin and Jason's third date ended with Jason falling off of a roof and ending up in the hospital with a major spinal cord injury that left him in a wheelchair. The two of them have only been on a few dates, but both of them had felt a serious connection, maybe even the beginnings of love. But neither of them knew what could or should happen after an accident that completely changed Jason's life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 15 June 2022

Love on the Peloton

Peloton Instructor and international cycling champion Christine D'Ercole was not looking for love. She was focusing on her work, her sport and her daughter. And then one shout out on her bike led to some witty banter with a rider which led to a deep friendship which led too much, much more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 8 June 2022

Committed: Season 8 Trailer

Committed is back for Season Seven on June 8th!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 31 May 2022

Holly Frey In Conversation With Seneca Women to Hear Winner: Siedah Garrett

Holly Frey, host of Stuff You Missed in History Cass, sits down with Siedah Garrett, one of the ten winners of Seneca Women to Hear: Search for the Next Great Female PodcastersSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2022

A Look Back with Shazi and Joe

We interviewed Shazi and Joe a couple of years ago and we are bringing their episode back into our feed because Shazi has a new podcast called The Healthy Baby Show. Shazi and Joe met while Shazi was building her company, the organic baby brand Happy Family Organics. Their storybook romance completely changed when their first child Zane was diagnosed with regressive autism. Shazi and Joe were forced to re-examine everything about their lives and their marriage to figure out how to parent Zane. But they did it; their family didn’t just survive, they thrived. Their family motto is “we win,” because they refuse to give up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2022

Written in the Stars

How far would you go for love...literally how far would you travel? Would you cross mountains, borders, continents? Today's love story is about one man who bicycled thousands of miles across foreign lands just to be reunited with the woman he loved. The year was 1975. Charlotte, a young Swedish tourist had just driven 22 days along the hippie trail from Sweden to New Delhi India in search of adventure. She spied a handsome young man sketching portraits on the street for cash and asked him if he would draw her. But when he looked at her he knew they were destined to be together. So he told her. Instead of turning tail and running for the hills Charlotte wanted to know more. And thus begins a beautiful love story that spans continents and decades.

Transcribed - Published: 19 January 2022

Blessed

Arthur and Ben met in church in the nineties. Both men grew up thinking that they might not find a church that accepted them as gay men and that they might not even find love as gay men. But one day in the pews of St. Bart's Episcopal church they found one another and they started a life together. They both wanted to be fathers and they tried open adoption and then regular adoption and fostering but there were so many road blocks.... This episode is the story of three decades of love, how these two found one another in the chaos of the AIDS crisis in the nineties, how they flourished in careers as a lawyer and a scientist. And how they ultimately both chose to leave those fancy careers and serve the church that first brought them together by going back to school. Today Arthur is a priest and Ben is a deacon. They both serve different churches in Georgia. This is a story about resilience and love and God and science and how all of those things come together in messy and beautiful ways.

Transcribed - Published: 12 January 2022

You Can't Just Take it For Granted

Shannon and Jerome Schwartz are married television writers. But up until a few years ago they had never collaborated on a project. They had their own separate careers and they were very content in their own spheres. But then a project came along that felt like the right thing to do together. And that project was to try to turn the Committed podcast into a television series for ABC Studios.

Transcribed - Published: 5 January 2022

Better Together

Larry and Sarah Nannery didn't know that Sarah was autistic when they first met and fell in love. They knew their brains worked differently and sometimes that was frustrating, but very often it was also incredibly interesting. They had their miscommunications, but they made figured them out. And then after about seven years of marriage Sarah got a formal diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. I found Larry and Sarah through their book, What to Say Next, where they break down how they communicate as a Neurodiverse couple. This is a love story about learning how your partner's brain works, how every single person's brain is different and unique, and there are lessons in here for all of us.

Transcribed - Published: 29 December 2021

It Takes a Village

One wife writes romantic comedy novels for a living. The other wife works with the world's most famous relationship guru and had her on speed dial throughout the early days of their relationship and engagement. Does this pairing make for a perfect union? Sometimes it does. But no relationship is perfect. Lindsay and Georgia work at their love every single day and they are the first ones to tell you that it takes a village of other humans to make a marriage succeed.

Transcribed - Published: 22 December 2021

Team Sweetie

Tim and Susan Bratton found their path to being intimacy experts because their own marriage was falling apart. Tim was cheating on Susan. Susan didn't enjoy sex at all. So they dug in and went to counseling and workshops and they became experts on the subject. And along the way they fixed their own marriage. Today Tim and Susan are two of the most sexually open couples I have ever met. They are in an open and polyamorous relationship, they have a thriving sex intimacy business and they're ridiculously happy and in love.

Transcribed - Published: 17 December 2021

Let it Float

Christina and Ryan Hillsberg are a real life Mr and Mrs Smith. They met and fell in love while they were at the CIA. Their time as spies shaped who they are, but it also shaped their marriage.

Transcribed - Published: 8 December 2021

Love is Blind

Lauren and Cameron got engaged before they ever set eyes on one another. They met on the reality TV show Love is Blind. If you're not familiar with the show it involves 15 men and 15 women going into this experiment where they see if they can find love through a wall. An actual wall. The two of them fell for each other in just ten days and got engaged without ever touching. It sounds crazy, but they're still together and still really happy. Maybe there's something to being forced to fall in love with your partner's mind before anything else.

Transcribed - Published: 1 December 2021

And That's How We Began

Joe served half his life in prison for taking the life of another man. Sheila met Joe while he was serving his time. She was 20 years older than him, a former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, a mother, a homeowner and she fell in love and married a man in prison. Joe was behind bars for twelve years of their relationship. I first learned about Sheila and Joe's love story in an incredible book by Elizabeth Greenwood called Love Lockdown: Dating, Sex and Marriage in America's Prisons. Sheila and Joe's story got under my skin for a lot of reasons. I couldn't imagine how someone like Sheila would fall in love with someone incarcerated for murder. But she did. And their love thrived behind bars and is still thriving today.

Transcribed - Published: 24 November 2021

The Coyote and the Fox

When Ash met Chip he was a part of the furry community, a community of people that enjoys an interest in anthropomorphized animals, that often likes to dress up as cartoon animals, sometimes in social situations. Ash had no idea what to expect from this new person that she was very attracted to. She had no idea how to dive into the furry community herself. But she did. Finding the furry community through Chip helped Ash learn to express herself in totally new ways. For the two of them the furry community is so much more than I ever could have imagined. This interview completely blew up any misconceptions I had about this world and how we choose to express ourselves from the inside out.

Transcribed - Published: 17 November 2021

Committed: Season Seven Trailer

Committed is back for Season Seven on November 17th!

Transcribed - Published: 10 November 2021

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