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What makes a marriage work? What are your favorite movie marriages?

Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright are diving into great movie marriages and sharing the beautiful lessons they can teach us. They discuss seven movies and lessons in marriage: Julie & Julia, supporting dreams; Father of the Bride, showing accountability; Love is Strange, accepting differences; The Legend of Tarzan, keeping passion alive; A Quiet Place, cherish each other; The Emperor’s New Groove, have each others’ backs; and Up, quality time. Don’t worry, we did a whole episode on the GOAT of movie marriages, Morticia and Gomez from The Addams Family. Marriage is often the most intimate and long-lasting relationship we have, though these lessons can be applied to any relationship. Should we do another top movie marriages video? Let us know in the comments!

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Anonymous

And Fiddler on the Roof

Anonymous

The parents in Dan in Real Life

Anonymous

Omg, Emperor’s New Groove épisode pleasssse!

Anonymous

“I’m looking at you Bluey” *Jumps out of chair and high fives partner cuz it’s our favorite show and we don’t even have kids*

Anonymous

Marge and Norm Gunderson in Fargo!

Anonymous

Emperor’s New Groove is so underrated, please do an episode about that!!

Anonymous

I'm sad there's not more polyam relationships in the media because I really want to hear Jono's take on them. I love the Gottmans and their Method, but it's been a struggle to adapt it for polyam folks since, by Dr. John's own admission, they've had difficulty getting research data on them.

Anonymous

+1 to what Kristine said, I'm also sad there's not more polyam relationships in media. My spouse and I have been poly for a decade of our relationship, and it's worked very well for us (and I'll be the first to admit it's not for everyone, just like monogamy is not for everyone). It's not really a film about marriage, or even explicitly about polyamory, but I think Spike Jones' film Her is the closest film I've seen to really exploring the benefits and struggles of polyamory in a mainstream film.

Anonymous

Awww, this was such a great episode! My spouse and I have been together just short of 20 years, and I saw quite a lot of our relationship reflected in what you talked about here. We are polyamorous, but like you said at the end, relationship structure doesn't really have that much bearing on what matters for a healthy relationship. There are certainly some extra conversations we need to have, but there's also some we get to skip. It's a difference in logistics and boundaries, but not a difference in connection and care. Up always makes me reflect on how my second biggest fear in life is ending up alone due to life circumstances (e.g. death, like in the film), but an even bigger fear is my spouse ending up alone for the same reasons. And yet these fears never once translate into "this isn't worth it," not even for a second. It's something I accept that will be part of our lives, just like death itself is inevitable. And I'd rather live in a world with us together than in a world where I don't have a relationship(s) like that.

Anonymous

The emperors new groove would be a great episode!

Anonymous

Definitely make an episode on The Emperor’s New Groove

Anonymous

Emperor’s New Groove Episode= Very Crucial Conjunction

Magnus Taliesin

Evie and Rick from The Mummy Returns is one of my all time favorite screen marriages. They fall passionately in love in the first film, and by the second film they have a ten-year-old and they're frankly even MORE crazy about each other. #goals.

Anonymous

Ruby and Sapphire from Steven Universe! (First gay wedding featured in a kids' show).