Valentine’s Day Bonus: Marriage is an Adventure

Committed: Trailer: These are the hilarious, heartbreaking and inspiring stories of couples of all kinds. by Committed

BONUS EPISODE: A New Kind of Cinderella Story: The actor Nico Tortorella plays a sexy heartthrob on the romantic comedy television show Younger. His real life love story with fitness star Bethany Meyers is so much more interesting. Bethany and Nico are both non-binary, queer and in a polyamorous marriage. This special bonus episode will have you questioning everything you think you know about how we define a marriage, why we choose monogamy and how we build our own families. Nico and Bethany are so open and honest about how they got where they are today after twelve years of on and off dating and sexual exploration. We could have held onto this one for season two, but it was just too good for us to wait! by Committed

32 min listen

The Man Under the Bush: Emmy wasn't looking for love when a homeless man asked her out on a date. She said yes and got so much more than she ever bargained for. by Committed

28 min listen

Forget It: A near-fatal brain injury, a stroke and amnesia turned Gwen and Yasir into one of the most interesting and accomplished couples you'll ever meet. by Committed

28 min listen

The Shop Around the Corner: Every couple has a career fantasy. Emma Straub and her husband Mike made theirs happen when they opened their bookstore Books Are Magic. It has completely changed their marriage. This is how they made it happen. by Committed

30 min listen

You Are My Safe Place: The pastors Vanessa Brown and Twanna Gause met as choir girls when they were teenagers. Both of them considered marrying men they didn’t love just to make other people happy. It took 30 years for these two women to find their way back to each other. by Committed

32 min listen

I Don't Own Him: How do you define a marriage when your job involves having sex with other people? by Committed

34 min listen

Love at First Slight: Love is not a competition. Except sometimes it is. Susan and Dan are baseball reporters at rival newspapers competing for scoops and sources. Yet they still manage to kiss goodnight and drive each other to the airport. by Committed

33 min listen

Don't Give Up Love: Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp got engaged in Tahiti before they set off to sail across the Pacific Ocean. Only one of them made it to land. This is a story of bravery and survival and a love than transcends life and death. by Committed

29 min listen

He Was the Brave One: When Nora found out her boyfriend Aaron had a brain tumor she told him they were getting married. They lived their lives like Aaron wasn’t dying. This is a story of how you love when you know the person you love won’t always be around. by Committed

22 min listen

Hope is a Dangerous Thing: Matt and Doree are on their fifth round of fertility treatments and they’re both wearing a little thin. Getting pregnant isn’t always easy, but no one ever talks about that. Matt and Doree do talk about it. by Committed

34 min listen

Toepick: Professional figure skaters Chris and Alexa Knierim shared the same dream when they fell in love and got married - get to the Olympics.....together. by Committed

29 min listen

I Just Want to See You Shine: Running for political office is a team sport. Your spouse is a critical part of the campaign whether they like it or not. Lauren Baer is running for Congress in Florida’s 18th district. Her wife Emily is the support system behind the scenes. by Committed

34 min listen

Tell Me Everything: We all want answers. What happens when your wife has them all....because she's a psychic. by Committed

28 min listen

Dear Dave: Allison was five months pregnant when her husband Dave had a stroke on the plane on the way to their Hawaiian babymoon. Their entire lives changed in the blink of an eye. Allison had no idea whether her husband would survive this traumatic brain injury, and if he didn't survive if he would ever be the same. She began to write him letters in the hopes that he would one day be able to read them with her and their daughter. by Committed

33 min listen

A New Plan: What’s it like to be married to a famous professional athlete. Samantha Didn’t know much about professional race car driving when she met the bad boy NASCAR star Kyle Busch. But after they fell in love she was thrust into the wild traveling circus of NASCAR. It wasn’t part of her plan. But real life isn’t about plans. Kyle and Samatha were about to embark on an incredible journey of love, marriage, infertility and hope. by Committed

27 min listen

Valentine’s Day Bonus: Marriage is an Adventure: This Valentine’s Day we want to think about celebrating marriage for more than just one day. A marriage is ongoing. It’s a collaboration, an adventure. This week we have two bonus love stories, a collaboration and an adventure. We have a couple who met in Antarctica and has spent the majority of their marriage traveling to one of the most hostile environments on Earth...we’ll meet Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarehli who collaborated on one of this year’s most lauded Academy Award winning documentaries, Free Solo. Their stories are incredible examples of partnerships that continue through the ups and the downs of creating something beautiful together. by Committed

26 min listen

Tell My Wife I Love Her Very Much: Chris Hadfield and his incredible wife Helene are frank and honest about what it really takes to get a spouse into space. by Committed

35 min listen

Reformed by a Good Woman: Duke believes he was one of the most evil men on the planet. He was the co-leader of the largest Neo-Nazi organization in the world. Duke says that Catherine's love is what rescued him. Their story - and their marriage - is raw and powerful and romantic. by Committed

32 min listen

Just Kids: Mickey was 15 and Matt was 17 when they had their first baby. A year later, they were married. They had two more kids, and then divorced in their early twenties. Then, three years later, they both ended up falling in love again...with each other. by Committed

40 min listen

Because I Love Ya: Levi and Jared are ready to get engaged. But Levi has been keeping his relationship with Jared a secret from his family and that has to change if they want to move forward. This is a story about being honest, completely and radically honest, with yourself and the people you love before you get married. I asked Levi if he was scared, scared to tell his story in such a public way, if he wanted to use a pseudonym. He didn't. He’s trying so hard to be brave, to be honest. Levi wants to tell his love story now....all of it. by Committed

33 min listen

Just Do The Next Right Thing: Ryan sold Brittany some bad heroin. Then they reconnected in rehab and it was love at...second sight. But both of them put their relationship ahead of their recovery. They imagined that doing drugs together would be the best high they'd ever had. So they bought $500 of dope and checked into a motel outside of Augusta. Within days they'd both overdosed. Ryan couldn't believe he had nearly killed the person he loved most in the entire world. In order to ever be together again, they had to give one another up. by Committed

35 min listen

When Lightning Strikes Twice: When Nora’s husband died she had a plan. She’d date. But she wouldn’t fall in love again. She wouldn’t have another grand love story. Along came Matthew. Finding someone new was easy, figuring out how to make it all work...that was a lot harder. by Committed

37 min listen

Committed: Season 2 Trailer: We’re back, baby! On April 11th Committed is coming back for Season Two. Get ready to believe in love all over again as host Jo Piazza interviews couples navigating the good, the bad, the messy, the wonderful and sometimes the hilarious —-often all in the same story. As she did in season one, Piazza will cover an array of poignant and timely topics such as coping with a spouse stricken with a sudden illness, an engagement put in limbo because of immigration status, watching a husband transition to a new gender, processing the news that a newborn baby is diagnosed with a terminally ill disease, adjusting to marrying a famous person, coping with sex addiction, navigating marriage in a brothel and more. by Committed

2 min listen

Just the Three of Us: This is a story of boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl, marries girl. But then…..girl falls in love with another girl. And boy….well he stays in the picture. We hear a lot more about polyamory these days than we used to, but we don’t hear enough about how it actually works, how a family can be crafted with three loving and consensual adults. Today Alex, Paul and Jackie live together and raise a child together and they want the world to know that this is their normal. by Committed

41 min listen

I Love You Buddy: Buddy Woodall is serving three life sentences for murder. In January he'll celebrate his 22nd wedding anniversary to his wife Kristy. When Buddy was sentenced he asked Kristy to divorce him, he begged her to divorce him. She refused. She says she will stay with him until the very end. This is their love story. It starts when they were 15 years old and Kristy hit Buddy in the head with a volleyball in gym class. It takes them through the difficult early days of their marriage when they were just trying to make ends meet and it follows them through Buddy's arrest, his trial, his sentencing and now his time in Telfair State Prison. Buddy and Kristy believe they have a love that transcends the prison walls. by Committed

45 min listen

Suddenly Samantha: Laura and her husband met in college. They got married quickly and had four sons. Laura’s husband was born a man, but always felt like something else, always felt like a woman. After thirteen years of marriage Laura's husband transitioned into a woman named Samantha. Now Laura and Samantha are navigating their new relationship as parents, partners and wives. by Committed

39 min listen

Jerry: Most marriages don’t survive more than a few years after losing a child to violence. Fred and Maria Wright have had dark days since their son Jerry was murdered in the Pulse nightclub mass shooting in 2016. Two years later there are days when they still can’t even leave the house. This is the story of two people forced to confront the worst thing that can happen to parents and finding a way through the darkness together. by Committed

35 min listen

He’s 25 years older: Natalie was in junior high when she first met Brandon. He was the father of one of her friends. Fast forward 15 years, Natalie and Brandon become a couple and they’re forced to consider how this might devastate their families and their entire lives. Today, as they plan their wedding, they’re dealing with the realities of their age difference—all of the judgements and stereotypes that come when a younger woman is married to a much older man. People ask Brandon if Natalie is his daughter. They judge her, silently and out loud about her motives for marrying someone who is older, but is also wealthier. They’re both still figuring it out. This is their story. by Committed

34 min listen

Three Minute Love Stories: We’ve gotten so many voicemails from you that we had to run another episode of three minute love stories. This week we have a couple trying to work through their changing marriage as they adopt a foster baby born to an addicted mother. Another couple picked up their entire life and moved to Bali to open a restaurant...and, finally, a wedding singer who fell in love with a bridesmaid. by Committed

11 min listen

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