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The Mel Robbins Podcast · August 24, 2026 · 01:04:25

30 Years of Marriage: 3 Things About Relationships I Wish Someone Told Me Sooner

Mel Robbins celebrates her 30th wedding anniversary by sitting down with her husband Chris to share the hard lessons that shaped their marriage. They discuss periods where they felt like roommates, cycles of resentment and blame that created distance, and the specific practices that helped them reconnect. Drawing on their own experience and expert advice from figures like Terry Real and James Sexton, they explain how stress turns partners into targets, what "normal marital hatred" means, and why softening during conflict is essential for lasting love.

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Stress Turns Your Partner Into the Person You Blame
Mel and Chris explain how unmanaged stress can shift a partner from being your favorite person to the person you blame for everything wrong in your life.
The Cycle: Resentment, Criticism, Silence, and Shutdown
Mel and Chris describe a destructive four-part cycle where resentment leads to criticism, which creates silence, which ends in emotional shutdown.

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