STILL CHOOSING USwithOmar & Yami
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.
The name comes from a simple truth they kept coming back to — love got them married, but it's the choosing, made again and again on the hard days, that kept them together. That's the whole show in three words.
"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.
"Absolutely amazing guys! Can't wait for more!"
"Great job my friends! Loved it all."
"Real, raw, truthful, with practical guidelines for a successful marriage! A must listen!"
The things couples avoid saying out loud — because they don't want to start a fight, hurt their spouse, or open something they can't close.
Why so many arguments are really just runaway feelings looking for somewhere to land — not the disagreement itself.
How one small word — "my" — can quietly create distance when two already-built lives try to become one.
One of their most painful chapters — the month Omar left after an argument, and how trust actually gets rebuilt.
Challenging the myth that love alone can carry a marriage — and what else it actually takes to last.
What really happens after the excitement fades — and why the end of the honeymoon phase is the start of building something deeper.
A real disagreement becomes a case study in how communication breaks down — and how they found their way back to actually hearing each other.
Why "I'm fine" and "we need to talk" so often mean something completely different than they sound — and how to close that gap.
Omar shares his side — how growing up without much shaped his relationship with money, security, and trust.
Yami traces her money story back to childhood stability, and how fear — not the dollars themselves — drives most financial fights.
How stress, parenting, and daily life can quietly pull a couple apart — even when the love never actually left.
A fight that started over a picnic becomes a window into how expectations and assumptions turn small moments into blowups.
The turning point where their marriage shifted from needing each other to choosing each other — on purpose, every day.
The origin episode — 18 years, a blended family, financial struggles, and the honest beginning of why Omar & Yami started this podcast.
Whether it's a topic you want us to cover, your own marriage story, or just a hello — we read everything.