DiscoverThe 1000 Hours Outside Podcast1KHO 631: Your Marriage is One-of-a-Kind | Dustin and Melissa Nickerson, How to be Married
1KHO 631: Your Marriage is One-of-a-Kind | Dustin and Melissa Nickerson, How to be Married

1KHO 631: Your Marriage is One-of-a-Kind | Dustin and Melissa Nickerson, How to be Married

Update: 2025-11-25
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Dustin and Melissa Nickerson are hilarious and surprisingly profound about what it takes to stay married in this day and age. In this episode, they tell the story of getting married as teenagers, building a “big family small business,” and learning that no one hands you a rule book for a one-of-a-kind marriage. Dustin shares why most marriage advice fails when it turns into a formula, and why the real work is becoming a student of your person. Melissa adds some truths about midlife: the sandwich-generation pressure, kids launching, parents aging, and the blessing of a partner you can still laugh with when the stakes get high.


Play, movement, and games show up as marriage glue. From backyard volleyball to made-up family games to their confession that hiking beats fancy date nights every time, they show what it looks like to stop performing “good marriage habits” and start doing what actually works for you. It’s tender, it’s funny, and it’s the kind of episode that makes you want to grab your spouse, get outside, and remember you’re on the same team.


Check out Dustin’s book How to Be Married (to Melissa)


their podcast Don’t Make Me Come Back There and


Dustin’s stand-up tour dates

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1KHO 631: Your Marriage is One-of-a-Kind | Dustin and Melissa Nickerson, How to be Married

1KHO 631: Your Marriage is One-of-a-Kind | Dustin and Melissa Nickerson, How to be Married

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