A podcast about marriage
18 years, a 13-year age gap, a blended family, and one choice they keep making — each other. Real conversations from Omar & Yami on what it actually takes to stay.
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18 years, a 13-year age gap, a blended family, and one choice they keep making — each other. Real conversations from Omar & Yami on what it actually takes to stay.
Omar and Yami met at church — never expecting that a 13-year age gap and two separate families would somehow become one story. Eighteen years later, they're still here, still married, and still figuring it out in real time.
Still Choosing Us is the conversation they wish someone had let them listen in on: the arguments, the almost-quitting moments, the blending of kids and histories and expectations — and the daily, unglamorous decision to stay and keep building.
"We beat the odds. Not because it got easy — because we kept choosing."
Omar brings the perspective of a husband who married into a blended family and a marriage with a 13-year age gap — and had to learn, in real time, what showing up actually means. On the show, he's the one asking the questions most people are afraid to say out loud.
Yami is the older half of the 13-year gap and, by her own account, the one who had the most convincing to do. Eighteen years in, she brings the hard-won honesty of a woman who has rebuilt a family from two, and isn't interested in pretending it was easy.
Whether it's a topic you want us to cover, your own marriage story, or just a hello — we read everything.