When Your Marriage Looks Fine but Feels Lonely

Our House with The Smylies · Oct 15, 2026 · 35m

If your marriage looks fine from the outside but feels lonely on the inside, you're not crazy. We've been there.

We've been married 16 years, and we've been on the brink of divorce four or five times. Most people around us never knew. So for our anniversary we sat down with questions we wish someone had asked us early on, and neither of us saw the other's list.

We get honest about all of it: when each of us felt most loved and most alone, the year a cancer diagnosis exposed how far apart we were spiritually, the work-late season we still see differently, how close we came even after Jason…