Off The Record with Kayla Levin: The Things No One Told You About Marriage
4/20/202615 min
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No one really prepares you for what marriage actually feels like.
Not the first few months.
Not the doubts.
Not the expectations that quietly fall apart.
In this Off The Record conversation, Kayla Levin breaks down the things most people don't talk about — from Shana Rishona struggles to miscommunication to the moments people quietly wonder, did I make a mistake?
If you're newly married… thinking about it… or years in and still figuring it out — this one will hit.
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First 90 secondsNachi Gordon· Host0:00
What's up, everybody? Here is a special episode for you. I sat down with Kayla Levin and we spoke a lot about those first couple of years of being married, what goes right, what goes wrong, and what are things that you could be doing to make your marriage even better. This episode's sponsored by our Meaningful Now Plus members. This is a Plus episode exclusive. We're gonna tease it for you here. You can listen to a bit of it, but make sure to become a Meaningful Now Plus member to see so much more content just like this. [pop] So what do you say we jump right in?
Kayla Levin· Guest0:28
Yes, please.
Nachi Gordon· Host0:29
Okay.
Kayla Levin· Guest0:30
All right.
Nachi Gordon· Host0:30
So first of all, we have, um, around 50 people that are watching live, and obviously this is gonna be uploaded later- Yeah ... for those who couldn't tune in live, and questions will come in. I have like a... I see the comment section on my end, so if I see something- Mm-hmm ... I'll, I'll definitely bring it up.
Kayla Levin· Guest0:45
Great.
Nachi Gordon· Host0:45
But the first question I wanna open with is, what's the biggest lie people believe about marriage before they get married?
Kayla Levin· Guest0:54
So this is a hard one 'cause I think that most people will claim they don't think this, but if you look at the behavior and the reactions, we can see that they actually do.
Nachi Gordon· Host1:05
Mm-hmm.
Kayla Levin· Guest1:06
The biggest lie is that if I'm a good person and he's a good person and it's the right match, then it should go pretty smoothly.
Nachi Gordon· Host1:15
Okay. And why is that a lie?
Kayla Levin· Guest1:19
Um, the whole concept of Shanah rivoshana, right, the reason we have Shanah rivoshana is because there's a developmental stage in relationships. We don't start off strong.