The Grounded Union Podcast

So thankful I found this podcast. It’s real, raw and has been so extremely helpful to me and my marriage. Thank you for sharing your story. So many days I felt alone and hopeless. But your pod cast has paved new roads and avenues to real healing. You are both truly amazing and your story is hard and rough but you can see the beauty that real work in healing can create.

Grateful I discovered this podcast. Gave me a lot of hopeful insight to consider while going through the most difficult and hopeless phase of my marriage after what seemed like 20 dedicated lovely years building a family together. Happy to hear how others pulled through, so maybe we can too. 🙏 (I hope my husband chooses to listen!)

This is an amazing podcast full of hope and practical action steps. I recommend it to all my friends that are struggling. Definitely give a listen to this couple!

Listening to Brandon and Caitlyn is a breath of fresh air. This podcast cuts through all of the BS so many have been trained to believe. You only don’t/won’t like it if you don’t want to face the truth of who you are. We all say we value the truth - but do we live what we say we value? The world would be an unrecognizable place if everyone took the radical steps that Brandon and Caitlyn advocate. I hope their message turns into a ripple across the world. Thank you, Brandon and Caitlyn, from the bottom of my heart, for speaking what many of us are feeling, and shedding light for those that are disconnected from reality.

Like many persuasive programs, this podcast begins with enough common-sense relationship advice to sound credible: communicate honestly, put away distractions, and spend time together. Unfortunately, that’s where the balance ends. Throughout the series, the hosts repeatedly criticize traditional counseling, therapy, and religion as lacking the answers couples need while presenting their own framework as the solution. They openly acknowledge they are not licensed counselors or therapists, yet they offer sweeping conclusions about addiction, marriage, recovery, and healthy relationships. Episode after episode follows the same pattern. Brandon repeatedly recounts past failures, agrees with Caitlin’s characterizations, and publicly revisits painful mistakes. Rather than seeing two spouses working together toward healing, I felt like I was listening to one spouse continually confess while the other served as the unquestioned authority on what happened, what it meant, and what healthy recovery should look like. The imbalance extends beyond the conversations themselves. Even the podcast artwork consistently portrays Caitlin in a dominant, confident position while Brandon appears lower, looking upward, or with unflattering facial expressions that express the idea he is somehow lesser than she is while she is perfect, spotless and always the better person. Whether intentional or not, it reinforces the same dynamic presented throughout the show: one spouse as the authority and the other as the perpetual offender. The practical advice also feels remarkably one-sided. The emphasis is overwhelmingly on what husbands must confess, admit, and change. I don’t recall hearing meaningful discussion about ways wives can contribute to repairing a damaged marriage, nor examples involving wives who betrayed their husbands. The framework consistently centers on male failure and male responsibility while presenting Caitlin’s perspective as the standard against which everything else is measured. By their own stated phases (they only ever reveal three of the promised seven) they are still stuck in the first or second phase…. So how are they supposed to lead couples to where they haven’t been themselves? The hosts promise that couples can reach a “thriving” relationship, yet much of the discussion focuses on repeatedly revisiting past failures and encouraging complete disclosure of every thought, temptation, and mistake. I heard extensive discussion about confession, but comparatively little guidance for how spouses are supposed to process the emotional fallout that such disclosures can create or rebuild trust in a healthy, sustainable way. The show also includes extraordinary claims that I found difficult to accept, including statements that polygraphs were designed to help men reveal only part of the truth, that church structures were created by men to keep wives submissive and sin hidden, and that a husband’s denial of an allegation is itself evidence that he is hiding the truth. Listeners can evaluate those statements for themselves by listening to the episodes or reading the transcripts. By the end, I came away feeling that the podcast relies far more on shame than restoration. If you’re searching for marriage help, I strongly encourage comparing this advice with licensed counselors, evidence-based therapeutic approaches, and other trusted resources before investing your time or money.

This is not the way to go. We unfortunately wasted money and time on their podcast/website/app. There is no real direction for the wives after the husbands dump all their hiddenness on them to “come clean”. This podcast and app will just traumatize the wives deeply. Please seek help from licensed professionals as Brandon and Caitlyn do not have any credentials in helping people recover from these topics.