Affairs, Throuples, and Big Monogamy: Your Relationship Questions Answered
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Podcasts
4.6 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Struggling to make a decision about your relationship? Panelists Heather Havrilesky, George Civeris and Tuck Woodstock take on your questions about everything from infidelity to gender transitions to getting married.
Listen to the Straightiolab episode on cheating here, and the Live in NYC episode of Gender Reveal here.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Death Sex and Money from WNYC, I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:04.0 | Over the last couple of years, we've heard from many of you as you've navigated all kinds of shifts and decisions on top of living through a pandemic. |
| 0:13.0 | Even the smallest choices have become complex and paralyzing. |
| 0:17.0 | And today, we are turning our attention to decisions you're trying to make specifically about your romantic relationships. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi, Death Sex and Money Gang. I'm here with a relationship decision about... |
| 0:30.0 | I don't know whether I'm the one and whether I should be waiting around for this. |
| 0:34.0 | Whether or not we should have another kid or not. |
| 0:37.0 | I think a lot of that time that we spent together with no distractions, no work travel brought up a few things in a relationship that I think maybe we weren't really addressing. |
| 0:49.0 | COVID definitely changed the trajectory of my marriage. |
| 0:54.0 | This is literally the first time in my life that I've experienced heartbreak, having to let go of somebody that I had fallen in love with. |
| 1:01.0 | I decided that instead of waiting for my long-term partner to show up, I was gonna have a kid on my own. |
| 1:10.0 | Oh, anyway, that beeping the backup noise is actually him. So I guess I'll wrap it up. |
| 1:16.0 | I just wanted to share that. Thank you so much. |
| 1:21.0 | These are just some of the voice memos you sent in with your relationship dilemmas and questions over the past few weeks. |
| 1:28.0 | Today we have gathered an esteemed semi-qualified panel to help advise you, and I am excited to introduce you to all of them. |
| 1:36.0 | I want to start with Heather Havrleski, a writer who just published a new memoir all about marriage. |
| 1:42.0 | It's called Foreverland on the Divine Teedium of Marriage. |
| 1:46.0 | Heather, you have also written the wonderful Ask Polly Advice column for years, and it is now one of my very favorite sub-stack newsletters that I receive. |
| 1:53.0 | Hello, Heather, welcome to Deathsex and Money. |
| 1:56.0 | Thank you, and I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:58.0 | Sure. And George Severus is an editor at Gokker, a Brooklyn-based comedian, and also the co-host of the podcast, Stradio Lab, with Sam Tagger. |
| 2:08.0 | George, thank you for joining us. I want to point out Stradio Lab. We love that you pay homage to our colleagues at W and YC at Radio Lab. |
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