WHOA That's Good Podcast - Dating Advice You Might Not Like (But Need) | Sadie Robertson Huff & Christian Huff

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

Sadie and Christian sit down with MillerAnne and Parker Brown for a candid convo on dating, long distance, boundaries, and engagements. MillerAnne knew Parker was different—but his intentional pursuit and care confirmed he was the one. Sadie’s take: stop excusing your boyfriend. It’s not “just how it is.” The right guy shows up with purpose. They stress setting boundaries early and skipping long engagements. Also: Sadie’s lake-life update (and surf progress), Christian on accountability and wise counsel, and a shoutout to their parents for modeling strong marriages. Learn more about LoveOneInternational.org/WHOA!  This Episode of WHOA That's Good Is Sponsored By: https://drinkag1.com/whoa — Get an AG1 Flavor Sampler and a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2 FREE in your Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription (a $72 value!) when you use my link! Go to https://trymiracle.com/WHOA and use the code WHOA to claim your FREE 3-piece towel set and SAVE over 40% off. Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! https://drinklmnt.com/whoa — Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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He's a guest. I'm a co-host. Okay, we have my temporary co-host, my bestie. You've seen the numbers. When I'm on with you, it's, Parker, the numbers are so drastically different. I believe it. I help co-host. So I'm, stop introducing me as a guest. Okay, I'm sorry.

I'll probably get flame to the comment session for that, but that is okay because it doesn't bother me. But we have two amazing friends here, Parker, Ann Miller. Richard is not about you. Thank you for shouting on. I was just introducing them. You introduced me as a guest. I'm your husband.

We're one. I am a co-host at minimum. At minimum. At minimum. Well, you know, if you came for Christian, we're so thankful for the co-host, but we also have two incredible guests on the podcast today. We have Parker and Miller Ann,

and I'm so excited that y'all are on. Thanks for flying here. My gosh, of course. We're so excited to be here. Thanks for having us. It's going to be so fun to talk to y'all. I love following you all on social media. Let me just say.

And this is like so funny. I should have not said this on the podcast and after the fact, but it's just true. We just got some energy drinks sent to us. And I was like, these are the perfect people to try these with. So after this, we need to try some energy drinks. What are they? Are they forgiven? Yes.

Okay. So good. Are they really? Yes. We've had it once. Okay, I've only had one. Like a week ago. But they're so good.

Well, I've had two. They're so good. Wait, that is so funny because this one I got to the office and they said, hey, you got some energy drinks and you need to try all of them. And I said, wait, I had the perfect two people to be here because if y'all don't follow along, you'll literally try and rate energy drinks on your story like often. It's like a thing. It's an addiction.

We're working on it, but it's so, it just, it's the experience of the energy drink, like cracking the can. And it's not even about the caffeine. You have no... Is this everything I said? It's everything he says. And I'm typically not an energy drink person. I am the biggest...

And so I'm always like, Christian, that's so dramatic. But everything you just said is exactly what he says to me. He's like, it's the experience. And he goes to the gas station every single day to get an energy drink. And I'm always like, why don't you just buy like seven? So that way you just like have it. And he's like, no, it's part of going to the gas station. 100%.

It makes our experiences 10 times better when we're on the way on a road trip somewhere. and we're like, we have to stop and get in Alani. What's your go-to, Alani? Mine is Hawaiian-saved ice or orange kiss. His is pink slash. Yeah, I'm transferring into a ghost. Yeah. I'm more and more ghost right now.

But like, if it's, yeah, if it's like 10 a.m., I'll wait like a couple hours so I can, like, build up the hype to my energy drink. Dream float Alani is the best of the best one. Christian, that is the biggest hot. take I've ever heard. Dream float? That is like the bottom of the bottom of life. The blue one? Yes. With the orange? With the The judgment. That's crazy. That is. Dream float craps on orange kiss. No, I'm not trying to be mean here. But Dream float is by far that it's, it's the only flavor I drink. A few

years ago, there was a bang and it was called Purple Guava Pear. And it was the best tasting drink I've had in my life. guava pear. It would change your life if it really would, but they don't do it anymore. That's so sad. I emailed them about it. No way. I didn't know about it. That's why I felt about the OG watermelon wave for Alani, and then they took it away, and I was like

all of these are not even good anymore. Are you only Alani? Well, the problem, here's the problem. I've only had one the last two months, because I found out I have high blood pressure, which I think I took my blood pressure when I was sick. So I've had to get off of energy drinks lately because of high blood pressure.

But my numbers are great now, so I think that's actually really healthy. I had one last week and it was fantastic. We're really trying to cut back even though we love the experience of it. Yeah, yeah. That is like, there is a whole group of people who are like y'all who love the experience of energy. Because one of Christians' best friends, when we met him, he would say the same thing and have the same. So I love it.

So I love how people are probably listening right now. It's a community. Yeah, you get it. It's a community. It is. Anyways, y'all do post about that. We post about so many more fun. things. And obviously, well, not obviously, people might not know. I know your sister's super well. Grace,

one of my great friends when I lived in Nashville still is a great friend. We both have three kids. Our life is kind of tracking, which has been really fun and kind of got to know you through her and I've followed along and we're just super grateful to have y'all on. And now people follow you guys. Y'all are like TikTok, TikTok influencers, which is so fun. But tell us a little bit about y'all's relationship. How did y'all meet? Yeah. You want to start in the last year? Yeah, I'll start us. So my family moved down from Illinois to Tennessee like five years ago. We moved down like June 1st. And so I knew a couple buddies in town. We knew no one.

But besides these two buddies. Summer going into my senior year of high school. Yeah, I think summer after his senior year. 2020. 2021. Yeah. So hung out with these two buddies, started hanging around. We were throwing the football. I was going to college to play sports And they were like, hey, there's this awesome family of the Marinix And they have a daughter, Miller-Anne, that you should meet, you know? Like, that'd be fun.

So literally I shot her a DM, like on Instagram, slid in the DMs. He gets it. All I said was hey. Like, I don't know, I was just like, hey. Hey? That's it? Yeah, that's all I said. Like an exclamation point?

I think so. I think so. Okay. Hey, ex-emission. No, no. No, just hey. I was like, hi. And so I was like, hey, we moved to town, you know, I don't know really anyone.

We're just, we're just here. I know some of your friends you grew up with. I'd love to hang out, you know. And so that turned into me picking her up at her parents' house. First date. The most daunting experience for me, I'm sure. Yeah, like, you know, whole first date thing. I walk in the front door.

In Illinois, we didn't really, like, meet the dad. I mean, like, that kind of wasn't a thing. They didn't, like, go to the door and shake his hand in my future. My dad is very, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. And he needed to come to the door, shake the hand, open my door, all the things. Yeah. And my mom, the whole time's like, hey, you have to walk up to the front door and, like, shake her dad's hand. Carter's like, what?

I'm like, no, what? Are you kidding me? You know? We just didn't know. Yeah, you know. Yeah, he did. And so, yeah, thankfully I did. But her dad, you know, walked up, answer the door.

I said, hey, my name is Parker. He introduced himself and literally turned around, walked, sat on the couch. Like, just didn't say anything else. And I was like, okay, let's go. And so we walk into the kitchen, and there's literally like 15 people around the island. I mean, I'm not even kidding. You got to set the tone because your family's big. Yeah, she's one of eight.

Mine is two, but I'm one of five. One of eight. Uh-huh, one of eight. He's one of five. So, like, he thankfully, like, kind of got that life. But when he walked in, I didn't really know that I knew he had a lot of siblings, but I didn't know that he was used to chaos too. So when he walked in, I mean, my brother had three friends,

Tutta had friends from Honduras, my grandparents were there, my aunts and uncles. Was Davey there? Davey was not there. Navy wasn't there? No. But when I tell you, my dad literally shook his hand and then walked inside on the couch, and I was like, my jaw was before, I was like, oh my gosh, you need to be nice to him. But from all my dad knew, it was like this boy from the north that was previously already doing TikTok by himself.

Yeah, bad looks to come. My dad was like, no. I didn't know that. You were a TikToker before? I was, yeah. Yeah, dude. It was bad. It's not, not good.

No, no, it's just like, just walking into that Southern family. I'm from the north. I'm a Yankee. They're like, you're talking to a Yankee. That's literally what they called him for a little bit. So I had some, I had some proving to do. And a TikToker. This is so new.

I thought, like, because I don't know y'all's story like this, I thought like you were more into the social media and like pulling him in. So you already did it. That he did it. What kind of TikToking though? Like just like, I mean, dances. I love it. You name it.

Like, you're typical, you know, doing TikTok in high school. Okay, I got to know from your perspective, though. Don't let him judge you. No, there is, yeah, yeah. Okay, I thought it was really cute. I mean, obviously I said yes. When he said, hey, were you like, oh, hey, like you thought he was really cute? I was freaking out.

Really? Were you already following along? Well, I went back. I didn't follow him on TikTok, but I looked back through all his videos and, like, I had liked some of them. So I had seen who he was. And at this point... So there was some, like, virality on, do I mean... Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. I love this. And I had the friends that told him about me, the girl that that friend was dating at the time, told me about Parker. So I followed him thinking, like, I mean, he's never going to see it.

Thousands of girls follow him. Like, this isn't me, like, shooting my shot, you know. Yeah. And then, so when he messaged me, I was like, oh, my gosh, he did notice. But anyways So I left this part out When I went to look her up on Instagram I saw I said follow back

So I was like what She already follows me, you know Probably boosted his ego No I mean it was wild You know shot our DM and yeah Where were we? We were at your house Oh yeah sorry Oh oh so flash forward

We're talking we're on a date It's amazing Also like I knew that Parker really loved country music and I had like this one unreleased Morgan Wallen song. So I like played it for him. And he was like, I mean, this is, that gave me some street cred for a sure with Parker. I mean, it was pretty sick.

He was pulling out on it. Yeah, I was pulling all these things. Also, we were at Sonic for the first day. Yeah, we wouldn't got ice cream. Anyway, we go. So then the next day or the next couple days, Parker comes over, my mom's like, hey, we're going to the lake this weekend. Do you want to come?

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And watching Parker, he grew up on the lake. So he was like, this is my time of the shot. I was shocked, but also was like, this is good. Yeah, this is great. Like, we grew up on the water. We surf, you know, the whole thing. You're like, I'm about. Yeah, we didn't.

He didn't work with this. Literally gets up behind the boat. I mean, have you all ever been surfing before? Yes, Christian. Yeah, yeah, okay. So I grew up in Florida. I feared that our experience was very different. When you showed up at the lake, it was like, oh, yes.

When I had to show up at the lake and do the thing, it was a horribly embarrassing. You were on the Gulf thing. It was so humbling. It was like this is the, like, this is where I would feel the least confident to show a family who I am. But you probably had a great attitude about it. Yeah, I did. Smack the water with my face a thousand times for that family to show that I was here to try. Yes.

And that's all that matters. Thank you for that. What are you at now, though? Can you hop it off? You're good surfing? Not, nope. Three babies later. It didn't work.

That's all right. That's okay. It's not my strong suit. You're a good tuber. Hey, and that's what the kids want to do. I don't even really like to do that. I love to ride. And that's why I keep telling his family like, I love to be on the boat.

Just let me be happy on the boat. I'm having a great time. I don't need to be in the water. This is great. Nonetheless, back to the. So you were like shining. Yeah, it was a, yeah, go ahead. For my POB, Parker has the surfboard in the water before the boat goes up.

Like usually you put your feet up in the air on the board. He's in the water. He's already standing on the board. He's like, I'm good. My dad's like, what? Okay. Turns on the boat. He starts going.

Parker's like doing 360s hopping the wake. One of my brothers lost his hat. Parker reaches up and catches him. No. Yes. Literally. I was like. And you're like in love.

I was baffled. At this point, was that the time I actually shed tears? You shed tears? I literally shed tears. Annabel was like, my sister, she looked over and she was like, why are you crying? And I was like, he's just, he's so cute. And my family was like, okay, what is going on? Like, this is so weird.

Anyway, so he obviously showed out. And not in like a pride, like, it was humble. He wasn't like, look at me. I also, I was like with a family. I just met, I mean, like, I'm dating, or was I dating you at this point? No, we weren't dating. I don't know.

We weren't dating yet, but it was all just like, I'm at a lake with a family. I'm known for six days, you know? I'm just out here and got to fight for myself. Six days. Oh my gosh, you'll only have like the sonic date under your belt. He asked me to be his girlfriend the second time we met. Oh, that's so sweet.

So you doing the song to him was like, it's equivalent to him showing out of him. 100%. You're like, so you're awesome. That was history, Craig. That was me out there. I face planted in the wake a million times. I was like, let me show you something.

I have that tool. I feel like you always do want to put your best foot forward. You do. Yeah. I feel like I was, I don't remember what our first trip was, but I definitely would have been the person trying to show up. He definitely showed out, yeah. Similar to like the, I mean, all of your athletic ability was what I was like,

wow, because I'm really not good at surfing, but I am an athlete. And that's what we bonded on so much. And that was like my favorite thing about our dating time is like we played so which then is so much basketball. Like, we bonded over that, which I'd never been in a relationship where we both love sports as much. And that was so fun,

because you're really athletic. And you love the lake and doing all that. No, yeah. We'll go a 1-1 pickleball a lot. Let's go. Just get into it. It's so fun. I mean, basketball, too.

We'll play basketball one-v-one. We love, like, just being active and going and having fun, you know. It's the best. It is. Did that woo your dad a little bit more? Oh, yeah, 100%. It was like he really,

put some respect on his name that time. That's awesome. And he was still, I think, at that point, like, not silent treatment, but like, we weren't buddy. He wasn't warm and fuzzy with Parker, because he was just like, I don't really know you yet. You know, probably too. How did y'all's relationship progress

from this moment? You obviously lied to each other a lot. Yeah. You were crying. Watching him. You were crying. Which I get that. I mean, sometimes. That's like a scene from, like, a movie. No, it was. You're probably started, you catching the hat and you start crying, Like that is a movie.

Like he's your dream guy, right, in front of your eyes. And you're just thinking, especially like that early on, you're like, I really want this to work out. Like, this would be awesome. But you don't want to get ahead of yourself and all the things. So after this happened, how did y'all progress in actually like starting to date? Yeah. So we started dating July 21st. And then he left for college August 9th.

Wow. So we dated in person. And I was a year older. So she was still in high school. Yeah. Senior in high school. And I remember. I was like that season of our summer, all we wanted to do was just spend time together.

So every day my family was like, well, Miller-N's gone. And we just spent every day together. And then he left for college, and it was so sad. But then we went straight in a long distance. He was playing football out of school in Indiana. I was obviously still in high school. So we're doing, we did long distance for like two years. He transferred to UTC to play football.

For the first five months, I was in Indiana. I think it was like a five-hour drive back home. But I would literally drive home every weekend. I didn't travel my freshman year. So I would leave after workouts on Friday and then come back Sunday night. And it was a grind. But it was so fun. You come to all my games for the ones he could.

Yeah. She played basketball in high school. It was really fun. Yeah. But then sophomore year, he called me, or spring in my freshman year, he called me. like I'm coming to Auburn because I went to Auburn. My heart had been set on Auburn ever since I was like a sophomore in high school. My sister went there. And so I knew I was going there and he called me and said that and I was like, what? Like I didn't even know who had applied.

I didn't even know. And his brother was committed to play football there at the time. So obviously our relationship got more serious. We're dating in person. Which like looking back God in that interweaved and all that timing was just crazy for a lot of reasons. But then he came to Auburn. We dated in person for how long? A year? Yeah, year, year and a half. Yeah, we got engaged at the end of my sophomore year. I feel like we should talk about long distance, though, while I was at chat. Go for it. Let's talk about it. I was at Chattanooga, which is in Tennessee, and she was at Auburn. I think we did long distance from there, like a year and a half. But like we have so many people ask about long distance, you know, hey, we're dating in high school. We're both going to different colleges.

we do, you know. Um, but honestly like long distance has its, you know, things. It's tough and a lot of people don't love it. Obviously you want to be in person. But we found like some cool ways to kind of walk through that. And um, one thing we did was before we, when we came together, before we left, we'd have a day in mind of the next time we'll see each other, you know, so it's not just like, all right, you know, see you. Yeah. I'll see you soon, you know. Um, and then also in that, like, When she was, I lived in a house at the time. So when she was coming to visit, we had to be really intentional about setting boundaries because, you know, you go from high school, living with your parents to college, now you're on your own.

And so thankfully, like, we had an extra bedroom that she would stay in when she would come in town. So that helped us kind of obviously just not go in my room. We're going to just not even entertain that. And she'll have a spot to stay. But I think, too, like a lot of people, like I've slept on the couch. before she'll sleep in my bed or whatever it might be. I think it's just so important to not venture into the room or just set clear expectations and boundaries before you even get there.

Is that something that y'all had talked about like going into y'all's relationship? Because I feel like a lot of people ask those questions on here. Like how do you set up boundaries with someone? And I feel like a lot of girls I've heard like struggle because they're trying to set the boundary and stay with the boundary. And then if the guy doesn't align, it's like they're constantly in this tug of war. And I feel like it's so important that as a couple, y'all are both seeking the same thing. And like for Christian and I, we always talk about how we did not date well before we met each other. When we met each other, we're like, we're doing this God's way. It took both of us

desiring that and setting those boundaries together. So it wasn't like one's constantly feeling the weight like, you're both carrying the weight. So that's what, I mean, it's so cool to hear you say as a guy leading that, but how did y'all come to that and even start those conversations? Yeah, we were kind of the same. And like when we started dating, we knew we wanted to do it God's way too. I would say to those girls too that like, I've heard so many girls be like, oh, I just feel like I'm stringing him along. And if that's the case, like, probably not going to work. Like, you cannot be facilitating that as a girl. Because you're just going to fall into temptation every time, probably. Or maybe it'll work for a second and then it doesn't. But we kind of

started having those conversations this summer, like literally when we write started, when we just started dating. And I would say to start, though, we had those conversations. We definitely, like, we're struggling with finding our rhythm, you know. We're young, we're 18 and 17, you know. And so, like, we're doing things we shouldn't. And then when I transferred that first semester to Chattanooga and she went into college in Auburn, that was when we kind of locked in. But something we learned was like if at the start you don't have those conversations you don't actually follow those boundaries it's so much harder to pull back yeah yeah yeah and be like all right here we go you know for sure so like to anyone out there it's just like hey do your due diligence and set these boundaries

as early as possible so that's all you know you know especially for a dude it's like yeah hey it's just you know and when you have seen it be destructive in the past it's like you know that you don't want that. And so I feel like the biggest thing for us was just intentionally setting boundaries before you get to the moment where you have to make a choice. Are we going to do this or not? So, like, you know, because you could say, oh, we're not going to do X, Y, Z, but we're going to watch movies together every night. Like, well, you're probably not going to, you're probably going to cross that boundary, you know? You got to be honest with yourself. Yeah. I'm like, so, I mean, I can't even tell you, we probably, we barely watch any movies because we're like, this is not

gonna in well. It sounds so lame. No, but that's so real. And everybody listening to this knows that's true. For sure. If you're in a dating relationship and you're watching movies together and it's just you too, like it just does not lead to you're setting yourself up for failure. You're 100% setting yourself up for failure. Yeah,

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But I also love that you're honest and like, hey, it started out like this and then we locked in. Because I do think a lot of people think, oh, well, we already messed up. Like, why do we, you know, why would we try? It's like, no, it's still important. Like, just like repentance is. It's a daily thing. Like, you can always repent and turn back to the Lord and then change. Like, I love how, I mean, this is a dramatic example because it's like a woman caught in adultery.

But still, like, Jesus stood up for her, condemned her to no more, but then said, go and sin. no more. Like, don't go back. Like, you're different now, you know? So you really can start fresh, even if it's the same relationship, but it doesn't mean you have to break up with that person and start over because you all mess it. Like, God can redeem it all. And you really can live differently. And we saw that in our relationship too. Like, we had to have like serious conversation like, hey, we really do want to do this God's way. So what do we need to do to position ourselves to do that best? And your why matters so much. If you're just like, oh, we're not across the boundary because that's what our parents said not to do or that's what church it's like you're going to do it

it has to be like the heart of like why because we've seen this be destructive because we know that it is destructive outside of the confines of marriage and that god has this beautiful form marriage and we want to experience that so that matters so much 100% and I feel like now that we're married we've only been married for 11 months about a year and I feel like we've already seen such glimpses of the blessings of that. And just like, you know, even when we did fall short, being like, all right, repenting and turning away and having accountability. Oh my gosh, that was like the biggest thing. Yeah. It's like, I knew every time I spent time with Parker, my sister was going to text me. Like, how was it? You know? It's so important. Yeah. In saying that, some people are like,

really? Like, you really need that? And I'm like, yes, because, I mean, if you look in the Bible, like, people are getting married so young. And we're created to desire that, you know? And so, So it's like, it's a, I've talked to our pastor a lot about this, but like it's a good thing to desire to do that with the person that you love. But just like you said in the balance of marriage and I always think of it. It's like sex is like a fire when it's in a fireplace. It heats the house. It warms the people. But when it's outside of the fireplace, it's destructive.

And so I feel like we just had to remind ourselves of that all the time of like, okay, we're actually fighting internal battle too, you know? us making this one little decision isn't just for the moment. It's like this is going to have a lasting impact in some way. And then you can even see the correlation in your relationship. Like for us, any time we fell short, it was like we would get an argument the next day. Or, you know, it just like caused destruction. And so it was super cool, though, to be on the other side of that and just like, watch God's hand, watch to see his faithfulness and like the blessings of it now.

That's so encouraging. That's so cool. So y'all did get married pretty young because you were a sophomore in college whenever you proposed, right? At this point, though, before we get into y'all's engagement. I want to backtrack a little bit before you go. Yeah, yeah, go. Well, I was going to say because I do have a question kind of even before you get to that point. Because we talk about long distance standing a lot.

And we talk about it a lot from the standpoint of, you kind of just talked about accountability, but accountability in long distance is so huge because it, and at least for us, because there's so much trust that is required for long distance relationships. Because for you, like I said, I did not have the best past in a fraternity.

So you had to, I had to do things to gain trust to where, hey, we're in a long distance. You used to be pretty crazy in a fraternity, to where you're not constantly checking my location and all those things. where you developed friendships with my friends. I developed friendships with your friends to where there was a gain trust to where it's like, I can trust

you that you're not going to go out and party. When he said, I'm with Parker and Bradley and I was like, awesome. Because you're not, you're not. Good guys. Because then, and I have friends that so huge, he was surrounded with. I have friends that don't have that accountability to where the girls don't know any of the guy friends. And it's just this negative headspace of what is he doing? Is he talking to other girls?

Where is he? Where is he? Like, did he leave his phone the house that you got to the bar to where there is such a level of gain trust that comes with long distance because of taking time to work on those friendships with with your friends or with my friends and that for us was the biggest thing with long distance was we stumbled you know we had our plenty mishaps throughout dating but the thing for us that was so crucial was there were so much trust that was gained in the long distance dating process because of, hey, I'm a man of my word in this. Like, yes, I'm going to come. I think I put over 20,000 miles because we were opposite.

I was in Auburn. She was in Nashville. You were in Tennessee. She was in Nashville every single weekend. He was. He put the time in. I did put the time in. But the long distance for us was huge to where we gained such a trust for each other so

quickly because it was not going to, if you couldn't trust me, and I'm, at this college. We were just going to constantly be budding heads. I think it's, like, so important, you know, for our listeners to hear the type of men that y'all are, though, and how y'all were pursuing us because we talk about, like, we have to guard our hearts as well-sprung of life. But I think when it's a good man who's pursuing you, he's also guarding your heart. Like, he's intentional about that.

And how you were saying, like, we have a date in mind. We had, you were driving. You were putting in time. And it's just really cool because that's what, like, pursuit looks like. you shouldn't be confused all the time is he going to call me is he going to text me when are they going to like you should know because they should be leading that in a way that's like

not confusing because you would always be like I'll tell you tomorrow hey what does this time work this is where I have my window and then can I come next weekend like there was always clarity that you like where you stood and how you saw me and how you're going to treat me and I just feel like so many girls just think like that's just the way it's going to be and like

you know is he going to text me and they wait two days And then he finally does. I'm like, that's not healthy. That's not him caring for your heart. And even with the boundaries saying, if he's pushing you, that's not healthy. That's not guarding your heart. And let it be known that there are men out there who are pursuing the Lord who will pursue you in a godly way. It's worth the weight to find that.

And it's going to be hard to break up with those who you might be in relationship with, but it's worth it because every breakup gets you to where you're going. And he's saying a lot of that because before I did. dated Christian. I had dated someone who was also in college and was long distance and he would do stuff like that. He would say, hey, I'm studying. I was not a shot at you, but I have friends that. Yeah, but he would say like I'm studying. And then literally because we're both more well-known people, you know, he would go out to the bar and then I would have people tagging me say, I'm with City Robertson's boyfriend at the bar. And I would be like, I thought you were studying. And he's like,

well, and so it's like constantly like that to where I was like, you know, having to be like, okay, well, I don't want to be over control. But it's like, no, that's manipulation. He was lying. That's not a healthy relationship. And so I had to learn to trust Christian, one, to not put my past experience on him and to be distrustful because that was hard for me.

But also trust, like, this is a different situation, and he's being honest. And I do think that so many girls just make excuses for guys because they just think, oh, that's how everyone is, and it's not how everyone is. That's a lie from the enemy. There are great men out there pursuing the Lord and you are worth being pursued in a godly way.

So I love that y'all are talking about this. And my next question was, what was y'all's, did y'all have any newfound struggles going from long distance to pretty much seeing each other every day? Like, did the struggles shift? Was that easier or harder than you thought? Because we went from long distance to marriage to COVID. So like long distance to quarantine.

We went long distance dating, long distance engagement to marriage quarantine. We get it. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, when he called me and told me he was coming to Auburn, my first response was excitement because we hadn't been dating a person in two years. But I also, I mean, I just finished my freshman year. I just felt like I got my feet under me, had godly community,

like friends that actually know me deeply. And my second thought was like, oh, how is going to be splitting time? Because, like, he's going to be the new kid as a junior. That's so hard for him, you know. And so as we dated And you lived in a house with five girls? Yeah, I was moving to a house with five girls. And so there's just, I feel like I was just getting my footing

and then he was stepping into a whole new season of unknown, which by the way, literally the first, when we first started dating, his family just moved from Illinois, Nashville. That's new and unknown. Then he goes to college for the first time back to Indiana, new and unknown. Then transfers to Chattanooga, new and unknown. Then to Auburn, new and unknown. It was pretty wild.

So it was just like thing after. thing and I feel like we are both just like hitting our stride and our places. And so naturally I was like, oh, what is unknown again? Like, what is this going to look like? And you can take it from there. Yeah, I mean, it was definitely tough first. We got, I got connected with some awesome dudes through her older sister. Yeah. Which was really sweet. Ended up, two of them ended up being my wedding. Oh, that's awesome. Such a blessing. But also in that, just like splitting time with, friends and obviously us was tough at first and also just having like direct access to each other at all times being in the same place is something that like we didn't know you know and so like with

boundaries with all these things created a new problem you know but but in the same breath like it got to a point where at first I was like oh maybe a little bit of fear of how we're going to split time and then when we got engaged I feel like the the problem quote unquote that presented itself was like all I wanted to do was be with Parker you know and I'm like we're about to get married we're preparing our hearts like building these lives together and all my friends were still in college like no one else was in that season and so I feel like for us and that time I was living in this tension of like oh my friends want me to be so present I want to be present with them and like soak up our last year but then also I'm about to step into this marriage and I also want to

like be ready for that and put in the time and go to primarital counseling and all the things. I felt this constant tension of like explaining, I found myself explaining like, oh, I'm going to hang out with Parker because like, because of this. And finally my best friend, Alice, looked at me and was like, you don't have to explain that's why you're going to hang out with your fiance. Like we want that for you. Go and do that. And so it was also really telling him my friendships that they were supporting not, but there was a season where I was like, oh my gosh, I have to explain. And then I was like, this is, I'm living in bondage. Like, I should have free up because this is, sorry, finish. I want to, I want to say like, it is so important for me to have guys, for everyone to have

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Find your favorite element element or share with a friend. That's drink element, LMNT.com slash woe. You need your friends, but also your marriage is the most important thing. So you have to focus on that. We experienced that. He really experienced that because he was constantly leaving, you know, Auburn to come to Nashville to do premarital counseling. And all the stuff with me that was so important because we were like walking towards being engaged.

We had already been talking about like wanting to get married and all that kind of stuff. And then even when we were engaged, I think that was maybe even the hardest part. Because his friends were like, You were about to be gone. Senior year. About to be married. That's hurrah. Dude.

Yeah. You know, and I'm gone every week. And, yes, that was the, the engagement was the hardest tension just because it was, you know, it was the last year. Yeah. All of us getting us kind of spend time together. But I'm gone every weekend. You know what's interesting about that. It's kind of a deep thought, but it's just when you said that, it's interesting because

there's so much tension in that because it's the already and the not yet. Like, you already made a promise, but you're not yet married. and it's interesting because we are living in the already not yet with Christ. Like he already died on the cross. He already rose again. We already had that promise. But then that he's not yet here coming back. And it's so interesting when you think about how like we're the bride of Christ,

like he will return for his bride, but we're in that tension. I was like, that is so interesting, but really cool to think about in these terms. So that's why we feel all that like. we're falling short, you know, the boundaries and this and that, and it's hard and the tension. And I want to be here, but I want to be there. This is what really matters. I'm like, that's so our whole life. That's so interesting.

That's a spiritual comparison. Good, off the cusp, deep thought. Yeah, it's true. We could go on a whole rabbit trail of that. But anyways, I just remember you experiencing that. And maybe there are people listening who are in that. And it is true that you need your friends because friendships are so important and they make you who you are, but you also have to start prioritizing your future marriage. And that is,

you're starting to kind of be less selfish, dying to self, like, we got to do premarital, we got to these things that aren't so fun, but like they're going to set us up for success. Well, the hard part too was, and I'm sure you guys experienced this, but when you're not, because none of my friends were going through the same thing I was going through, like none of them were engaged, none of them were, I mean, some of them were seriously dating, but none were near engagement, and then we're even close to getting married. So for me, I also had to have people that I could talk to that were in a similar thing.

And then for me, that was when mentors were huge. So my pastor at the church I was at, I also had another older mentor speaking into certain things. I had to realize that I could not expect my friends to give me something that they didn't have a framework for. I couldn't ask for engagement advice or, hey, how do you, if they're single. but I think I would do that and it would be met with this, you know, like this not great answer.

And it would frustrate me, but I had to get at the point where I realized I can't seek that from you. I have to find someone else that has either been there or is in a similar situation or is married. I can speak into this. So the friendships are huge, but it's also equally as important finding someone that can relate to your situation. And for me, I found that through our pastor, which is huge. Yeah, that was awesome. And then I think it freed your friendships up to just be fun during that stage because you didn't have an expectation that they needed to understand. And they had to stop having the expectation that you had to always be there for them to know, for them to know that you love them.

And like all your best friends who were like in our wedding, you're still close with. And so it's like there's that balance. But I think that that's so important. It's so weird how much our lives are tracking. Like we literally had the same pastor. That's crazy. Because when you were telling the advice, I'm like, I think we've talked about that. them. That's so wild. And it's fun too when your friends do end up going through it and then they're like, oh, I see it now. Yeah. That's the best. Now it's like that with kids. I feel like with kids. They're like, whoa, we didn't realize how, what you were going through when you had, okay. Yeah. Great. Grace for the journey. It's so great. How long was y'all's engaged? We were not engaged for two long. I was six months. Yeah, so we got engaged in June. I went back to Auburn in August. So it was my senior year. We were, you were back in Nashville. Long distance.

for August, June, six months. We got married November. He's saying we got engaged in June and then we both lived in Louisiana at the time. That was like our one time to live in the same place. I was building dog closet somewhere. Yeah. And then I came back here just so we could be at the same place at the same time because my family didn't really know him either.

I talked about winning the respect of the dad. Like I wanted him to know my family. Which for me was a double whammy. It was like Sadie and her dad. It's a little intimidating. You did great. The first time he met my dad, we played tennis, which is funny. We did.

We beat him 6-0. Yeah, we did. Oh, go on that. That's awesome. But, yeah, and then he went back to Auburn in August. We went back to long distance while we were engaged. And then November is when we got. We were in person engaged for two months and then four.

How long were you all engaged for? Too long. A year. Yeah. The end of her, I guess, your sophomore year to the end of her junior year. Yeah. I told Parker going into our engagement, I was like, hey, look, I will be getting married in a hot month. So you can decide how long our engagement is going to be.

And also, it had to be in the summer. His brother played college football. I was literally a sophomore. I was like, we can't get married in the middle of the school year. Yeah. Anyway. And you were so, like, summer girl. All your colors were so beautiful.

I loved. I loved the colors. It was stunning. Thank you. And it ended up being great because just, like, doing people. premarital while in school, while planning a wedding, trying to be intentional with our families back home and our community. I feel like God knew we needed that much time, which I wouldn't normally, to anyone getting engaged, I'm always like get a short engagement for sure or have a short engagement for sure.

Yeah, like if we were working in the same place and we didn't have school, a year would have been brutal. Yeah. But by the end, we were definitely, definitely ready. Yeah. Anyway, it was here. Whenever you all, okay, so you got married young and you had said at some point, I think my team was telling me this whenever you all chatted, that you didn't think you would get married young. And so what did that look like? Yeah, so I knew I wanted to marry Parker while we were dating. But, you know, his parents got married in college. That was like so normal for him. And I guess mine did two of my dad was out, but my mom was in college. But I never really thought about it like that. And I just had this expectation that my life was going to look like my sisters at Auburn. And she had been there for four years, had awesome friends. They all lived in a house together and had all these fun adventures. And I was just like had this vision of what my life was going to look like.

And even though I knew I wanted to marry him, I just didn't necessarily have the timeline. And then he, you know, it's actually funny. So my dad got diagnosed with ALS, which we talked about a little bit. summer, no, fall of my sophomore year, which is when Parker had just transferred to Auburn. Wow. And I guess for him at that point when he was transferring, he didn't really know why. Like he had always been an athlete, and I don't want to speak for you, but like football, he was so good at it and loved it.

And it was like not who he was, but I mean, a little bit of your identity was definitely wrapped up in sports. And so when he left, he's kind of like, what am I about to walk into? like, I don't know how God's going to use this. And then he got to Auburn that fall. My dad got diagnosed. And it just like shook reality in so many ways. And I kind of started deep diving of like, what is my why for wanting to wait to get married? Like the Lord just kind of changed my heart and was like, hey, this is what I have for you. Why are you not seeing this? Like who, it honestly made me evaluate, like, oh, am I just on the world's timeline of what the

world says is when you should get married, you know? Because, you know, most people would be like, oh, go to college, have your four years, and then get married. But it was in that time where I was like, oh, it just kind of reminded me this life is a miss, you know? And we're not even promised tomorrow. And like, I know I want that. So what the heck are we doing waiting, you know? And all the godly counsel in our life, our families were so supportive of that. So it's just like thing after thing that the Lord was just like, yeah, this is what I have for you and you need to walk in it. And so we did. And now looking back, I'm like, I cannot imagine waiting any longer.

Like, I actually can't. And I'm only 22, but it's so sweet. And I mean, on top of that, too, like, it's so tough to honor the Lord for a long time in a dating relationship without being married. It's not how he intended to be. You know? And so we kind of got to a point where we're like, hey, if we're going to do this, let's do it. You know?

Like, we both know, and we want to honor him. Like take that step. So, it was great. When you all started the dating story, it's funny that, you know, you shook her dad's hand. And then he went and sat down and then, you know, rounding out to getting engaged and now your dad's going through ALS and y'all are getting hit with this diagnosis and it's so wild. How did y'all's relationship you and her dad's grow over the years? And where is it at now? If your family is anything like mine, then it can be equal part sweet and chaos sometimes.

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but over time and getting diagnosed with ALS, I've seen just a completely different side of him, you know, just sitting on the porch having super intentional deep conversations about his heart, you know, our heart, talking about the Bible, and like, it's been wild to see and just also see his faith walking through something like this. I couldn't even fathom walking through it myself and seeing him still hold on to hope in Jesus knowing he has a terminal illness has been wild. And yeah, it's really cool. It's encouraging. And also he's always been deep, just not necessarily feeling, you know, but because he's been stripped of all these identities he could attach him. to like even just being the male provider and not being able to do that anymore he's like

oh what is my true identity and so I feel like it for me it's been sweet to watch y'all get deeper in that way and just get closer and you like have him to look up to and he has so much wisdom and so and I'm sure that I'm sure that brought y'all so much closer together for sure in the moment for my gosh yeah which back to the engagement like we are engaged at the end of that year, we know, yeah, at the end of that year and through that season at Auburn, and I'm like, that was so the Lord intentionally bringing Parker to Auburn because I was able to watch Parker shebored my heart in a way that I hadn't been able to see when we were doing long distance because you're in person. And like, he is my, he's my person. And so even just watching him,

like, care for me and pray, pray over me while I would cry or like, you know, point me to the truth. that was also so confirming. That was such a confirming season that we were supposed to be together and take that step of marriage too. Because I was able to watch him take care of me in that way. So cool. Wow, that's so beautiful.

You know, I've told you this before, but I really mean it. When I look at you and Annabel and Grace and all your sisters in Tutah, I'm like, Josie Love, I gotta keep going. I'm like, I'm like, I always think, like, y'all are so the epitome of like a sister and a friend. Like, when I think of the relationship,

I hope our girls have. would be y'all's relationship. I'm like, oh, truly. And then not only that, but the way your parents have raised your family and even seeing your parents from social media, I'm like, wow, this is such a beautiful family. We look up to y'all's family so much. We watch your dad's testimony at ACC, and I'm just so inspired by him and your mom's relationship. And just love your family. For those listening to, just the connection, Love One International, which is one of our sponsors to the show. I talk about all the time. That's her family. So we, for probably should have made that connection up front at the beginning.

And that's what y'all put your work to. And we just couldn't be more inspired. I just want to ask you all just now that y'all are a family coming from such amazing families. What are some of the things that you're taking from your parents and how they raise your families that you all want to incorporate in y'all's family? That's a great question. I think one, seeing my parents growing up, one thing they did was they were pretty intentional about not speaking about each other to other people. like in a negative way or even maybe in general, you know, just like cultivating that around our marriage. I just really want to do.

Like I want, I want us to be united in any way possible. And I don't want any bad talk about Millarand to come out to anyone else. You know. So good. Like the mom culture getting together, be like, my husband did this. His mom and his dad never do that. Like, you will never hear his dad speaking poorly about his mom or his mom's speaking poorly about his dad. So good.

which is so cool. And, like, you would think that would be normal, but it's not. No, that's so real. That's a great one. I feel like, were you going to say something, Christian? No, no, I was. I was just feeling my beard. Katie wants me to shave it soon.

Dude, I think it looks good. Thank you. It does look good. I'm not talking bad about you. You're great. No, you're good. Sorry, no, I was not going to say anything. You're good.

I feel like for me, which I know you could probably say. this too. Now that I am an adult, I guess kind of I don't really feel like an adult, but now that we're married, I look back to my parents' life and all the things that they were just obedient in without knowing what the outcome would look like, like adopting four kids and starting a nonprofit that in Uganda where they literally have no idea what they're doing. Just thing after thing that I'm like just required so much faith and obedience. And I mean, approval of me. man has to go out the window because there's so many things that the Lord asked them to do that they were just like absolutely locked eyes with him. And it was so hard, but they grew so much in it,

you know? And so I just want to carry that like obedience no matter what into our marriage. And I think it's easy to focus on outcomes, be like, okay, Lord, we'll do this. But like, I want you to give me clarity on the other side. And it's like all the time my parents growing up the things they didn't have any clarity. You know, like they just had faith and they trusted that the Lord was going to provide and he did time and time again. And so I feel like in a world

where everybody just wants answers all the time and wants our future laid out. I just want to take the next right step and that's exactly what they did if that makes sense. Yeah, it makes so much sense. It's one of those things where I've been thinking about this lately

because we were talking about this, my mom and I, how people don't talk about this part of life enough where whenever you have a baby and like your mom comes and she helps you and it's like such a blessing you know not everybody has that situation but it was like such a blessing for my mom to come help me postpartum but then like when your mom leaves the house it's like oh my gosh like this it I remember like crying and I was talking to friends about it and they were like saying the same thing they like cry when their mom left because it feels like this weight hits you where I'm the mom now like I it's like past the baton and like

I've been helping you, but now you're the mom to this child. And it's like so wild. And I think that for a long time you had this perspective of your parents that, oh, because they're older, they're your mom and dad, like they're the adult. They just know what to do. Like they just know what to do. So they're just doing it and they're confident. And then when you become the adult and you become the mom, you realize they didn't know

what to do, they were like, they were scared. They were, you know, because you don't see that from them. They're like superheroes in your eyes as a kid. And then now I'm realizing, oh, they were scared. and they were confused and they had to have faith. And like the Lord was speaking to them and they were being obedient. And the things you just think that they,

oh yeah, they started, you know, loved one or they adopted four kids. Like my mom, she adopted. My mom and dad adopted and Duck Commander. It just felt like that's just what you do. And then you realize, oh, that's so hard. That is so scary and hard. And I've just been learning so much

from my mom now as a mentor. I'm like, oh, okay, this is how you walk through this, is how you handle the situation. And it's just been so cool. so much more respect for like their faith and letting the Lord really lead our lives. And just want to say to those who don't have parents out there, like I sincerely am so sorry and I just encourage you like get plugged into a church because that's how you are surrounded by a godly family and mentors and pastors who can help, like she said,

shepherd your heart through life's trials and through different things. And so please surround yourself with generations. I think God really did intense. for us to live within generations, like to have mothers and grandmothers. And if you don't have that and grandfathers, and that is so found within the church. That's what the church should be for. So I love that.

I don't want to finish the episode without asking you all a classic question on what that's good. If you all have a best piece of advice that has been significant in your life. I would say, don't take criticism from people you wouldn't take advice from. That's something that I have clunked. to in so many different seasons. Grace actually told me that advice. And I was in middle school.

I remember being like, oh, my word, it just shifted my perspective on everything. Because, like, you know, in high school, when I was trying to walk intentionally with Jesus and, you know, people would say things, it's like so reframing. Oh, what I, what I asked their advice? Probably not. So I'm not even going to let that comment affect me. And then now, like, we'll post something on social media that's on our heart that the Lord has put there and might be bold or whatever. And people criticize, it's like, oh, I'm probably not going to sit down and take their advice. So why would I even let that affect me? Like, I've kind of just watched that advice hit me in a new way in different seasons.

And so, and it's just you're like, oh, yeah. You're like, yeah, because it seems like we should know that, but it's so true. A hundred percent. So I would definitely say that. It's great. I love that. People will rarely remember what you said to them, but will always remember the way you made them feel. That's good.

I don't know, I just feel like whether it's in conversation or whatever it might be, looking someone in the eyes, asking intentional questions, just making them feel welcomed, you know, and loved. I feel like that's helped me a lot just in all the different places I've been in. It's so good. I love that. And it's so true. So many times we overthink, like, what would I say? And people just want you to be there and just be a friend. I don't think I'm making this up. I think this is true. Did I see on your story when you moved into college that you have, scriptures all over your wall. Like, I just remember, as you've been talking, I keep getting that picture of seeing your story that day, which is so wild, because think about how many Instagram stories you see that

like you would never remember, but I was like, I remember you posting. I know, but I remember you moving into your dorm and putting all these on the wall. And I think the memory keeps coming to my mind because the Holy Spirit is bringing it up to make the point that, you know, as you all have been watching

Parker Miller and speak, like so much scripture comes out. There's just an overflow of the Lord and His goodness. And like, y'all have that because you've treasured it in your heart and because you've really pursued the Lord. And it says in the Bible, like, from the heart so the mouth shall speak. And so when you come on a podcast, it's so effortlessly comes out because it's in your heart.

Like, yes, your parents were amazing and your friends are so great. And you go to church, but, like, y'all have pursued the Lord on your own time. And it's so evident in your lives and in your marriage. And so I said this before we came on. and I'll say it again, like y'all are truly influencers worth following. And I hope so many people continue to follow y'all's journey and look up to you guys because y'all are doing great. And that's not to put pressure.

I've been in front of the spotlight for a long time and messed up a million times. But I think the beauty of it is showing people even when you mess up. And that's the beauty of repentance and showing people that you got to receive the Lord's mercy and his grace. And no one needs another perfect-looking influencer to follow. I need an authentic, real one, following the Lord. And so thank you all for being who you are. and thanks for being on the podcast.

My gosh, thanks so much for having us. It's so fun.