Life with the Cors

In this episode, we continue sharing our marriage story and what happened after our first separation. We open up about the counseling programs, recovery groups, and difficult years of trying to rebuild trust while Jonathan struggled with pornography and sex addiction. Jamie shares what it was like to navigate the pain of betrayal, find support for herself, and slowly begin to understand that Jonathan's addiction wasn't a reflection of her worth.

We also talk honestly about shame, accountability, the things we got wrong in our approach to recovery, and why getting sober didn't automatically make our marriage healthy. Jonathan shares how his motivation for getting help began to change, and we reflect on what it means to pursue healing one day at a time. Even after years of work and progress, we eventually faced another separation, reminding us that recovery and marriage restoration are not always the same journey.

In this episode, we continue sharing our marriage story and the painful events that eventually led to our separation. As we entered our second year of marriage, the dishonesty, emotional neglect, constant criticism, and broken trust had taken a devastating toll. Jamie shares what it felt like to lose herself in our marriage, the moment she realized she desperately needed help, and the difficult decision to leave our home.

We also talk about Jonathan being confronted with the reality of how he had treated Jamie, the conversation that became a wake-up call, and what it was like to face the possibility of our marriage ending. Looking back, we reflect on the damage we caused, the people who stepped in to help us, and how God's grace has continued to shape our journey toward healing, forgiveness, and restoration.

In this episode, we continue sharing our marriage story, starting with our wedding day and the painful reality of our first year together. What was supposed to be the beginning of a beautiful life together quickly became a season of loneliness, unmet expectations, emotional distance, and heartbreak.

We open up about what happened on our wedding night, Jonathan's hidden struggle with pornography, the lies that broke Jamie's trust, and the devastating moment the truth finally came out. We also share how our marriage affected our mental health, why we suffered in silence for so long, and the beginning of our journey toward honesty, healing, and restoration.

In this episode, we’re going back to the beginning of our story and sharing how we met, became friends, started dating, and eventually got engaged. What began as a fun and unexpected relationship moved quickly, and from the outside, everyone seemed to think we were perfect together.

But behind the excitement, there were doubts, red flags, and pressure to keep moving toward marriage. We talk about why Jamie almost ended the relationship, the outside expectations that made it difficult to trust what she was feeling, and what we see differently now looking back at the beginning of our marriage story.

n this episode, we talk about how becoming parents has changed us individually and in our marriage. Jamie shares what it's been like to love being a stay-at-home mom while also feeling like parts of herself have been put on pause, carrying the mental load of motherhood, and longing to feel seen, loved, and appreciated in this season.

We also talk about the sacrifices we've each made since becoming parents, how differently we experience those sacrifices, and the tension between structure and spontaneity in our family. Ultimately, we get into what we're both quietly longing for from each other and how we're learning to create more space to be known, vulnerable, and connected in marriage.

In this episode, we talk about why we don't have close friendships with the opposite sex outside of our marriage. We unpack the boundaries we've chosen, whether attraction even matters, and why we believe emotional intimacy with someone else can become dangerous even when nothing inappropriate has happened.

We also talk about trust, jealousy, flirting, when your spouse should be able to say they're uncomfortable with someone, and where the line is between protecting your marriage and controlling your spouse. Along the way, we wrestle with when it's appropriate to bring other people into problems within your marriage and why we don't completely agree on who should be allowed into those conversations.

In this episode, we have an honest conversation about something we've both been wrestling with: wanting to hunger for God again. We talk about spiritual dryness, the seasons when desperation made God feel close, and what faith looks like when that desperation isn't there anymore.

We also wrestle with how differently we experience God, whether spiritual disciplines can become performance, our complicated relationship with church, and the difference between pursuing an emotional experience and pursuing God Himself. Ultimately, we're asking what it looks like to stop trying to manufacture faith and simply respond to God one day at a time.

In this episode, we reflect on nine years of marriage and the hardest things it's forced us to learn about ourselves. For Jonathan, that meant confronting selfishness and blind spots he didn't know he had. For Jamie, it meant facing deep insecurity, people pleasing, comparison, and how much of her identity she had placed in other people's hands.

We talk about why marriage can expose what's already inside us, learning to own the parts of ourselves we'd rather avoid, and finding people who can meet our brokenness with grace instead of shame. We also unpack what we're learning about vulnerability, confession, healing, and becoming safer people for each other.

In this episode, we talk about something that has been largely missing from our marriage: fun. After years of hard seasons, survival mode, and taking marriage so seriously, we realized we haven't created much space to simply be playful and enjoy each other.

We unpack why being silly can feel vulnerable, how differently we each define fun, and the parts of ourselves we've held back from each other. We also talk about becoming parents, learning to be more carefree, and what it might look like to bring more playfulness, joy, and lightheartedness into our marriage.

In this episode, we have an honest conversation about apologizing, forgiveness, and why saying "I'm sorry" has been one of the hardest parts of our marriage. We came into marriage with completely different experiences, and neither of us realized how much they would shape the way we handled conflict.

We talk about pride, people pleasing, making amends, healing without receiving an apology, and what we're learning about forgiveness. This isn't a conversation about getting it right. It's about learning to take ownership, extend grace, and let God change our hearts one step at a time.