Hard seasons are not a sign your marriage is broken. They are the curriculum. In this episode of the Epic Marriage Podcast, Nick and Alex Leyva close the season with the most honest life update they have ever shared. Baby number six arrives in August. Nick is releasing his first book, a 30-day plan that helps husbands lead through delivery and the first month of fatherhood. And the family is walking through what Nick calls a Red Sea moment, backed up to the water, praying for it to open.

If your marriage looks fine on paper but feels quieter than it used to, this episode is for you. Good marriages rarely fall apart from one big betrayal. They quietly come undone from small patterns ignored long enough to compound, until couples find themselves fighting for a relationship they should have protected years earlier. In this episode of the Epic Marriage Podcast, Dr. Brian Willoughby joins Nick and Alex Leyva to name what actually causes most marriages to drift, and what stops it. They cover the three buckets of marriage failure, the dating pyramid most couples build upside down, and the weekly habit that quietly holds long marriages together. Brian draws on 16 years at BYU's School of Family Life and decades of research on dating, commitment, and divorce prediction. He also covers the marriage premium most couples don't know about, the relational reframe of the sacrament, and the two questions every husband should be answering himself. If you're ready to stop drifting and start building, visit YourEpicMarriage.com for resources created for temple-sealed couples. If this episode helps you, leave a review so more couples can find it. Follow Epic Marriage: Website: https://YourEpicMarriage.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/epicmarriageoffical YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@epicmarriage Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/epic_marriage/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/epicmarriagepod Follow Dr. Brian Willoughby: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-willoughby-32b6a318/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@brianwilloughby281 Twitter/X:https://x.com/drbrian_byu Profile (BYU): https://wheatley.byu.edu/brian-willoughby

If your marriage looks fine on the outside but feels heavy underneath, this episode is for you. Author and mental health educator Ganel-Lyn Condie joins Nick and Alex Leyva for a conversation about what actually keeps an eternal marriage alive over decades, not days. In this episode of the Epic Marriage Podcast, Ganel-Lyn shares the seasons of almost-divorce, the Portland Temple visit where 30 years of covenant making came alive in vision, and the line she texted her adult kids the moment it hit her: covenants keep you when you keep them. She also reframes therapy as education, mental health support as part of how a husband provides, and the Abrahamic trial as a model for how marriage walks couples through their unhealed childhood wounds. Underneath it all, a conviction borrowed from Elder Brook P. Hales. Mortality works. If you're ready to stop pretending your marriage is fine and start building one that actually lasts, visit YourEpicMarriage.com for resources created for temple-sealed couples. If this episode helps you, leave a review so more couples can find it. Follow Epic Marriage: Website: https://YourEpicMarriage.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/epicmarriageoffical YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@epicmarriage Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/epic_marriage/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/epicmarriagepod Follow Ganel-Lyn Condie: Website: https://www.ganellyn.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ganel-lyn-condie-11645213/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ganellyn/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ganellyn

In Part 1, Dr. Tim Rarick shared what it looks like to defend the family at the United Nations. In Part 2, the conversation moves inside the home. Nick and Tim tackle the stuff that actually breaks marriages apart: pride disguised as being right, shame disguised as humility, and the slow drift that happens when couples stop seeing each other as people and start seeing each other as obstacles.

Dr. Tim Rarick is a professor of Home and Family at BYU-Idaho who has spent over a decade defending the family on the world stage. He has spoken at the United Nations more than 20 times, met with diplomats from dozens of countries, and faced hostile pushback for standing up for fatherhood, motherhood, and the family unit. He has also been married to his wife Jody for 25 years and is raising four children.

If your spouse has stopped reaching for you, or if you have stopped noticing when they do, this episode explains exactly what is happening and how to fix it. Bids for connection are the small, everyday moments that hold a marriage together. A wink across the room. A hand on your back. A text that says I am thinking about you. When those bids get ignored long enough, couples stop making them altogether, and resentment fills the space.

If your idea of quality time together has been reduced to scrolling on opposite ends of the couch, this episode will get your attention. Fun is not a luxury in marriage. It is the lubricant that keeps everything moving, and most couples have run dry without realizing it. In this episode of the Epic Marriage Podcast, Nick and Alex Leyva sit down with Tammy Hill, a licensed marriage and family therapist and sexual educator, with over 22 years of clinical experience who helped pioneer healthy sexuality education at BYU. Together, they explore why playfulness is the missing ingredient in so many covenant marriages and how it directly impacts trust, connection, and yes, your sex life. You will learn why trustworthiness matters more than trust alone, how phones are now rivaling sex and money as the top threat to marriages, and why a simple nightly ritual of skin-to-skin contact can flood your brain with bonding hormones in under 20 seconds. Tammy Hill also shares her own "Tammy Day / Jeff Day" practice and a bedroom menu concept that has transformed how she and her husband play together after decades of marriage. If you are ready to stop treating fun like a reward and start treating it like oxygen, visit YourEpicMarriage.com for resources created for temple-sealed couples. If this episode helps you, please leave a review so more couples can find it. Your marriage was designed for joy, not just survival. Follow Epic Marriage: Website: https://YourEpicMarriage.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/epicmarriageoffical YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@epicmarriage Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/epic_marriage/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/epicmarriagepod Follow Tammy Hill, LMFT: Website: https://www.tammyhill.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tammy_hill_lmft/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tammyhilllmft/

If your marriage looks fine on the surface but runs on autopilot instead of revelation, this episode is the wake-up call you need. Knowing about Christ and actually knowing Him are two very different things, and the gap between them shows up in every corner of your relationship.

If your marriage has started running on autopilot - driven by schedules, stress, and leftover energy, this episode is for you.

If your marriage feels like a board meeting with a little kissing on the side, this episode is for you. Playfulness is not childish or extra. It is relational oxygen, and when it disappears, couples drift into efficiency, grievance, and quiet distance.