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Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Elizabeth and Vanessa’s parents both got married fast, and fell in love after.
This week on Hot & Bothered, Elizabeth writes about the trope “Marriage of Convenience.” She’s taking this opportunity re-write her parents failing marriage with a happy ending. But the more Elizabeth writes, the more Vanessa wonders if Elizabeth is carrying some of the worst parts of the trope into her own life. She and Vanessa explore: how parents can inform our own idea of love, what it means to settle versus what it means to compromise, and what exactly is a happy marriage?
We also get our next writing assignment from #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn.
Next week: More love advice and a conversation with writer and columnist, Steve Almond.
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| 0:00.0 | Spoke Media. Not sorry Productions. |
| 0:07.0 | As a kid, I loved hearing the story of how my parents met and I loved looking at their |
| 0:20.3 | wedding album. They kept it in the linen closet, which I would go into and |
| 0:25.5 | close the door so that no one would catch me obsessing over it. I would puzzle |
| 0:31.0 | over their young faces, so serious and so earnest. |
| 0:37.1 | They met and fell in love quickly, and have a relationship that looks to me like it's impenetrable. |
| 0:45.0 | And their love gave me a road map for how I wanted to love. |
| 0:50.0 | I don't think I'm unique in this. I believe that our parents are our sacred |
| 0:55.8 | text for how love works. How they love each other or how they fail in loving each |
| 1:01.1 | other and how they love us and fail in loving us teaches us how to |
| 1:06.4 | love. By being a good example or a bad one and all the things in between. They are our source text, |
| 1:14.0 | the thing that we return to when we're lost. |
| 1:18.0 | This week's writer is Elizabeth Yamani and she is writing the trope Marriage of Convenience. |
| 1:27.0 | I gave her the same assignment that we gave all of our writers, write a romance novel that can help you figure out something about love for your own life. |
| 1:36.0 | Elizabeth, like me, and like I suspect many of us, Can't think about her own future love |
| 1:44.3 | without thinking about her parents love story. |
| 1:46.5 | So she did something really brave |
| 1:49.0 | and chose to write her romance novel |
| 1:51.1 | based on her parents relationship. I'm Vanessa Zoltan and this is |
| 1:55.8 | hot and bothered. Elizabeth is a recent statistics graduate from Harvard and she's currently unemployed and living at home with her parents who happened to be in the middle of a messy |
| 2:15.3 | divorce while she's writing this romance novel. |
| 2:18.7 | So you you mentioned that you are going to write a marriage |
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