Influencers Matt and Abby Howard see followers’ essential feedback on their relationship.
Matt, 27, and Abby, 26, had a “messy dialog” on divorce throughout a Wednesday, January 21, episode of their “Unplanned” podcast. Whereas chatting, Matt confessed that he sees many feedback from their followers telling Abby to go away him.
“If I had a greenback for each remark or ‘like’ on a remark for those who instructed you to go away me, I might have a whole lot of {dollars},” Matt mentioned as Abby giggled.
Abby then chimed in, saying, “Effectively, that’s how you understand that it’s so baseless. You’re a rockstar husband, like, you’re a tremendous husband.”
Matt agreed that Abby is an “superb spouse” too, and shared that he believes that their followers get “pissed off” in their very own lives and see “small snippets” of his life and undertaking their emotions. “Possibly they’re in an unhealthy marriage they usually wish to go away, however they don’t have the braveness to get out,” he defined.
Abby then mentioned that she hadn’t “thought” of that circumstance. “Tradition and society don’t essentially promote perseverance in a wedding,” she mentioned.
Elsewhere within the episode, Matt said that he and Abby are “not getting divorced.”
Followers have lengthy criticized Matt and Abby’s relationship due to their “conventional” dynamic, the place Abby takes care of the home.
In December 2022, Matt made a TikTok of himself cleansing up and instructed followers, “Don’t be fooled by me selecting up my home as a result of I’m not sometimes the one who does it. And don’t be fooled by me caring for my son.”
Matt was once more below scrutiny for selecting to sleep in his closet as an alternative of in mattress with Abby in February 2025.
“That is tremendous embarrassing however I’ve been sleeping in our walk-in closet for the previous month,” he mentioned whereas laying on a mattress. “My spouse’s not an enormous fan of this association, clearly,” he added. “This choice that I made was one thing that I needed to do to prioritize my psychological well being as a result of I used to be not OK. I used to be actually struggling.”
Abby later shared that she felt “lonely” sleeping alone throughout an episode of their podcast. She additionally famous that it’s arduous to search out garments as a result of there’s a “queen-size mattress in there.” The couple additionally shared that their sleeping association had “nothing to do with the ‘well being of their marriage.’”
Matt and Abby met in 2013 at a neighborhood manufacturing of Mary Poppins in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2016, they made their relationship official and attended school collectively in 2017. The next 12 months, the couple obtained engaged and tied the knot in July 2019.
Highschool sweethearts turned social media influencers Matt and Abby Howard are, as soon as once more, inflicting an uproar amongst their followers. The “Unplanned Podcast” hosts and oldsters of two sons below two — Griffin, 23 months, and August, 10 months — not too long ago revealed that they’re “boycotting” Father’s Day this 12 months because it lands round Matt’s […]
The couple expanded their household in July 2022 with the delivery of their son Griffin, now 3. In August 2023, they welcomed one other son, August, now 2.
In September 2025, Abby introduced that she suffered a being pregnant loss only one month after sharing that she was anticipating.
“At a routine being pregnant appointment, our physician couldn’t discover a heartbeat. Shortly after they despatched us in for an ultrasound the place the technician mentioned phrases we’ll always remember, ‘I’m so sorry I do not need excellent news,’” she captioned an Instagram submit. “That’s once we obtained the gender reveal we by no means hoped for and likewise the information that our child had a genetic situation that took her life round 17 weeks gestation.”
