I'm Elizabeth Reese.

This is best to the nest, the podcast that is all about creating strong, comfortable, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly. Hi Marjorie. How

are you today? I'm a little sweaty, as you can see. I'm a little sweaty. Need a new air conditioner.

You just look glowing. Is this the secret to dewy skin? It's just sweat. Being a little hot.

I'm really hot this morning. But I am very excited about what we're going to talk about because I think this is a really,

really important topic.

And it's reclaiming space in a marriage.

I love space.

I love space.

And I famously would fight for space within my family of ways to just reclaim it, have a moment of peace.

But this is interesting because this all stems from an article I read on the good trade.com.

And the headline was, what is the bathroom divorce trend? How couples are reclaiming their personal space, and it's by

Rebecca Lieb. So I'm going to read you a little bit of this, because I love her opening sentiment.

She writes throughout my life, I've been told that when you meet the one, you share everything

with them, your hopes, your dreams, your home, everything. For years, I lived by that, thinking that if there was friction

around the arrangement, there was something wrong with the relationship, or maybe worse, something

wrong with me. Years later, and a few more relationships into my adult life, I began to realize

that this thinking was misguided. The more I matured, the more I realized that there are many ways to be in a

relationship and many ways to create healthy infrastructures within it. I love that idea of

infrastructures within the marriage. Those are my words. Together. Sharing everything became sharing

some things on my relationship's own terms. In my current relationship, it's been incredibly

refreshing and empowering to create our own rules, one collaborative decision at a time.

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