Separation Anxiety

After spending hours and hours wrapping gifts this weekend, Amy and T.J. have an honest conversation about the amount pf presents under the tree this year.   Turns out “guilt giving” is a fairly common response with divorced and blended families, parents trying to make up for the loss of a sense of normalcy for their children.  We have the red flags you should watch out for and an incredibly helpful guide on h...

It made big headlines this week after Travis Kelce pressed George Clooney on his claim that he and Amal haven’t fought in more than 10 years. Kelce went on to say that he and Taylor were in the same boat as George and Amal, claiming they haven’t fought in 2 1/2 years.  Amy and T.J. researched what relationship experts and therapist have to say about this notion of never fighting, and turns out they all agree, one e...

21-year-old Millie Bobby Brown announced this week that she has officially changed her name after marrying Jake Bongiovi. We learned her middle name is actually Bonnie, not Bobby, so from now on, she’s Millie Bonnie Bongiovi, or as she joked, Millie Bon Bon. It got us curious just how many women in this country change their last names once they’re married, and the numbers surprised us, with 8 out of 10 women choosing to...

Just one of many sweet and surprising moments from an impromptu podcast episode at the Robach-Holmes house. Annalise is home from college for the Thanksgiving holiday, and she brought a friend: the bubbly, vivacious, enthusiastic, and sporty Genna! We didn't know where the conversation would lead, but we certainly didn't think it would lead to .... toilet paper. But for any parent struggling with feeling overwhelmed by parenting, w...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! While the holiday season is all about love and joy it can also bring family tension and unwanted conversations. Experts suggest there is a communication tool that we can all learn to use, to help navigate and avoid emotional outbursts. “Gray rocking” begins by imagining you’re a dull gray rock… keeping a blank expression and a calm neutral tone. Aunt Debbie will be so bored talk...

Usha Vance was spotted out on official Second Lady duties without her wedding ring this week.  Couple that, with the recent remarks from hubby J.D. saying he wished his wife would convert to Christianity to the controversial hug between Erika Kirk and J.D. Vance last month, and you’ve got divorce rumors circling the couple. Hear what Usha Vance said in response to all the negativity and why we liked it so much. 

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After a number of nasty headlines regarding the Miss Universe Pageant, Amy and T.J. decided to record this episode while watching tonight’s pageant. This week, the latest scandal to hit the Miss Universe organization happened after two judges resigned, one of them claiming the pageant is rigged. This comes on the heels of a tragic fall by Miss Jamaica during an evening gown competition and a pageant director stepping down ear...

50-year-old Sophie Grégoire is a class act. She was baited on a podcast to explain how she’s remained so “cool” amid the now public romance between her soon-to-be ex-husband, former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and pop star Katy Perry.  Grégoire, who was married to Trudeau for 18 years and with whom she shares three children, gave some of the most thoughtful, empowering answers to how ...

North Carolina is one of 7 states that has an Alienation of Affection Law, which allows a spouse to sue a third party when they can prove they had a loving marriage until that third party maliciously seduced their spouse. The wronged party doesn’t even have to prove there was an extramarital sexual affair… it is solely about someone stealing a partner’s affection, that leads to the destruction of a marriage. ...

The grand finale of “The Golden Bachelor” may not have ended with an engagement, but it gave us gold in terms of personal and relationship lessons! Spoiler alert on this episode, if you still don’t know how it ends, finish watching before listening. From 60-year-old Cindy who left before the fantasy suite because she doesn’t “need to convince a man to love me” to 62-year-old Peg who went in with ...

A behavioral and happiness expert just gave a fascinating interview about the balance between happiness and unhappiness. Apparently we need both in our lives, but there are healthy and unhealthy ways of dealing with them. Amy and T.J. go over which countries report being happiest and unhappiest, what age range is the most joyful and what it is in our lives that actually makes us happy… FYI it’s not money. And, we talk ...

The "Bachelor" franchise has faced its struggles with ratings and controversy over the years. "The Golden Bachelor" added a new wrinkle to this season: boredom. 

Mel Owens is down to the final two women on "The Golden Bachelor," in a season plagued by low ratings that critics and viewers attribute to Mel's lack of on-screen charisma, i.e. he's boring. But in part one of the season finale last night, Mel explained for himself w...