Ep 434 They Fell in Love Passing Notes in Med School. Thirty Years Later, They're Still Learning Each Other w/Alexandra and Rod Stockwell

Ep 434 They Fell in Love Passing Notes in Med School. Thirty Years Later, They're Still Learning Each Other w/Alexandra and Rod Stockwell

From Marriage Therapy Radio by MTR

July 21, 2026 · 44 min

About this episode

Zach interviews Alexandra and Rod Stockwell about their long marriage and the communication techniques that have helped them grow together over thirty years.

Zach sits down with Alexandra and Rod Stockwell, married almost 30 years and both trained as physicians. They met in 1993 as first-year medical students, passing paper notes back and forth during lectures, and that early habit of asynchronous, patient communication turns out to have shaped everything that came after. Alexandra is now a relationship and intimacy coach and host of The Intimate Marriage Podcast . Rod still practices medicine and, in his words, is happy to support her work from just outside the spotlight. The conversation moves through the real mechanics of a long marriage rather than the highlight reel. Rod tells the story of what first drew him to Alexandra: not academic standout behavior, but her willingness to notice what everyone else in the lecture hall was too polite to say out loud, like asking a professor to turn the lights back on. From there, they trace how curiosity became their throughline, how personal growth inside a marriage compounds over time, and how a phrase like connection over content changes what a hard conversation actually accomplishes. Rod offers a simple, practical fix for the "heady" partner who struggles to know what a conversation needs…

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