Ep 423 |19 Years In: How a Dating Coach and His Wife Actually Do It w/Evan and Bridget

Ep 423 |19 Years In: How a Dating Coach and His Wife Actually Do It w/Evan and Bridget

From Marriage Therapy Radio by MTR

May 5, 2026 · 43 min

About this episode

Zach discusses the realities of marriage and relationships with dating coach Evan Marc Katz and his wife Bridget.

Zach sits down with Evan Marc Katz, a dating coach for smart, successful women, and his wife Bridget. The premise alone creates an interesting tension: what does it look like when the guy who coaches women on how to find a partner actually goes home to one? The answer, it turns out, is less glamorous and more grounded than anyone might expect. What surfaces quickly is that Evan and Bridget do not have a fairytale origin story. They were on the same dating site at the same time and never matched. They met at a party, talked for six hours, and built something slowly. Evan, who dated more than 300 people online over a decade, had never stayed in a relationship longer than eight months before Bridget. She, a serial monogamist by nature, had come from a completely different kind of romantic history. The episode moves through how two genuinely different people with different worldviews, different sleep schedules, different appetites for depth, decided to stop scanning for flaws and start building something that actually works. Along the way, Evan makes a sharp case that the qualities dating culture rewards, height, income, shared hobbies, politics, are almost entirely irrelevant to…

People in this episode

Host: Zach

Guests: Evan Marc Katz, Bridget

Topics covered

  • dating
  • relationships
  • marriage
  • communication
  • personal growth

Keywords

  • dating coach
  • marriage
  • relationship advice
  • communication
  • long-term happiness

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