Mel Robbins Says She Agreed to Marry Husband Christopher After Third Date: EXCLUSIVE

Mel Robbins and her husband, Christopher Robbins, were meant to be.

In an interview for the Jan. 4 episode of Sunday Sitdown, Mel Robbins recalled how she got engaged to her husband of nearly 30 years.

“On our third date, we went out to dinner downtown, and Chris didn’t get down on a knee, but he said, ‘I want to marry you,'” she told Willie Geist.

“I said, ‘You do?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He goes, ‘I’m going to spend the rest of my life with you.’ And I said, ‘I’m going to spend the rest of my life with you. We’re getting married!’ I said, ‘Let’s do it!'” she recalled.

The author of “The Let Them Theory” said her husband didn’t waste any time after that.

“When Chris finally had the ring, he just all of a sudden was like, ‘What am I waiting for?'” she said.

However, getting the ring wasn’t easy. Mel Robbins said that Christopher Robbins ran into a little issue once he tried to get her a “little diamond eternity band” from a place inside the Empire State Building. Upon checking out, she said he realized that his credit card wasn’t working, so he had to ask his brother for money.

Then, there was the challenge of getting in touch with her father to ask for her hand.

“He can’t reach my dad,” Mel Robbins said with a laugh. “And so he leaves a message on the home answering machine.”

“Oh my gosh,” Willie responded.

“’Bob, I hope you don’t mind, but I’m going to ask Mel. I have to do it. I don’t know why,'” she said, imitating the awkward message.

Once the ring was secured, Mel Robbins said her husband surprised her with a sweet proposal on the roof.

“I’m sitting here inside. It’s just, like, a random Wednesday. And he walks in, and he said, ‘I just got a call from the landlord and there’s something on the roof,'” she recalled. “And I’m like, ‘OK,’ but he said, ‘There’s something we’re supposed to go up and look at.’ And I’m like, ‘Why do I have to?'”

But once they got to the roof, she was shocked by what her then-future husband did next.

“He gets down on this disgusting tar, dirty, pigeon-pooped roof and I’m looking around like, ‘Why are we up here?’ And I’m like, ‘What are you doing?’ And he’s like, ‘Will you marry me?'” she said. “And I’m like, ‘I thought we were — Yes!'”

“And he had a ring. And that was that,” she added.

The couple ended up getting married in 1996 in Michigan. They share their three kids, Sawyer, 26, Kendall, 25, and Oakley, 20, together.

Mel Robbins posted a tribute to her husband for their 29th anniversary in August 2025 and shared what they’ve learned since getting married.

One of her lessons came directly from the theory that sparked her viral hit book: Let them.

“Stop trying to change people and learn how to love them as they are,” she said. “Most fights, resentment and frustration comes from wishing people were different. The more you let people be themselves, the better your relationships will be.”