The Marriage Phase
We're Chase + Christine, a young married couple who just got married in August 2025. Here you'll find stories about the fun, hard, + Godliness of marriage from either our lives or the lives of guests who've been married for decades more than us. We are so glad you're here.
Episodes
Dating Q+A with Stephen Hunsaker (pt. 2)
What are good guidelines for physical boundaries in dating? What should I know about a person before I marry them? What if I never get married? One if not all of these questions may have crossed your mind as you are navigating relationships. When we tell you this episode changed our life and mindest about dating, and we're sure will do the same for you, we aren't kidding.119 Questions- htt
10 min marriage moment- creating our own family culture
When we got married, we realized we got to create our own family culture. We both came from different family backgrounds, so getting to choose what we loved and want to do differently from our families has been such a cool thing. instagram: @chase_and_christine
10 minute marriage moment- doing it our way
We wanted to start posting little 10 min segments of a lesson we've learned about marriage + family that's happening in our lives as speak. Here's one all about taking what we've learned from our growing up years + creating our own little family our way. instagram: @chase_and_christine
Flags in Dating with Stephen Hunsaker (pt. 1)
While dating, it's so easy to quickly spot red flags in the other person but have you stopped to spot the orange, yellow, and green ones too? Stephen Hunsaker talks about ALL of the flags to pay attention to in dating. Not just the red ones. 119 Questions- https://www.stephenhunsaker.com/copy-of-staying-presenthttps://www.stephenhunsaker.com
Deciding to have kids in Grad School
Landon + Kenadee share their story of how they met, fell in love, and decided to have kids while Landon is in grad school. Defying what the world says to wait until you have "enough" money, or "enough" time to have children, they share how they've managed to find what's really important and do it all!!instagrams: @chase_and_christine @the.plattchattiktok: @chase_and_ch
What we're doing differently this next year of marriage
We just hit our 1 year anniversary YAY!! We got to reflect on what things we both want to keep doing and do differently in our next year of marriage. follow us on Instagram: @chase_and_christine
How to be a team when you are so different
We got to talk with Mark and Meghan (Chase's parents) and hear their 5 points of wisdom from their 27 years of marriage. Learning about how to reduce conflict, love each other more, become a team together, and more. Instagram: @chase_and_christine
How We Found Each Other
I friend-zoned Chase before we got started dating and it turned out to be the greatest blessing for our relationship. follow us on instagram: @chase_and_christine
The Reality of a Toxic Relationship: Why it's Hard to Leave
Years before meeting Chase, I was in a toxic relationship. This experience taught me so much about what it means to truly love God, your person, and yourself.
How to Stay Close to God in Marriage ft. Kiana Stanclift
Newlywed and newly converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Kiana and her husband, Gavin Stanclift share all about how marriage and life is full of JOY when you live like sharing His love is the most important thing.
Chronic Illness in a marriage: Having an Eternal Perspective
Battling Cystic Fibrosis all of her life, Molly wondered what marriage and family would look like in her future. Little did she know, God was preparing Seth (her husband) all along to find her and start building a life together. Holding onto their faith and love for God, their eternal perspective keeps them grounded when things get hard.
Our Expectations vs. Reality of Marriage
We look back and see what our expectations of marriage were before we got married, and see how much has changed now that we've been married for almost one whole year. follow us on instagram: @chase_and_christine
When you're stuck between two good decisions
With missions, type 1 diabetes, and almost breaking up, Lizzy and Cameron's story has tons of crazy twists and is full of the unexpected. It's so cool to look back and see that God was preparing them for that all along.
Us Against the Problem
Professional race car driver Caitlyn Singler (Hafen) and her engineer husband, Zach Hafen share all about how they support and chase their dreams together. Running multiple businesses, traveling to race destinations, and navigating all of the craziness in between, they share all of their wisdom on how they handle the hard together and grow closer to God while doing it.@ZachariasCaitlyn
How to Stay Best Friends
We had our friends Jess + Jaren, who've had wayyyy more experience than us with this marriage thing (they've been married 17 years) who are genuinely best friends, tell us how they grow that friendship closer to each other + God, even when life gets crazy hard.
Q+A
To finish up this season, we answer the questions you guys submitted about marriage, kids, dating, and everything in between.
This Last Week
We came home from the most epic trip, to a world of crazy chaos. It was tough. We learned some good lessons about how to work together better as a team with God and each other.
Our First Month of Marriage Pt. 2
The first month of marriage is full of new. You literally create a life together with your best friend and that can look like a lot all at once.
Our First Month of Marriage Pt. 1
WE GOT MARRIED. Went on the funnest honeymoon... and then came back to real life. Here's a glimpse of some hard, fun + Godly things we've learned in our first month of marriage that have helped us so much now, and can maybe help you too! Come back next week for pt. 2
Our Wedding Week
The week leading up our wedding was pretty much chaos. We were finalizing our wedding plans, our family was coming from all over to celebrate us, and we had to figure out how to make time for each other.
How to Be Engaged
The wedding was weeks away, and we almost didn't get married. The Engagement Phase can be ROUGH, believe us, we just went through it ourselves. We're here to share that these experiences create connection and growth between you, and your lover and with God, and that it is possible to survive this tough season!
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