First Comes Marriage

The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Arranged marriages, although they sound scary to our Western ears, are considered extremely successful. Divorce rates are much lower. But those are statistics. What about being in love with the person that you married? A Harvard study found that partners in arranged marriages, over time, end up being more in love than couples who marry for love. Our friend Ryan Kailath has known this his whole life, because he grew up with it. His parents met for 15 minutes before they married.

*Includes the trailer for our upcoming season, “No.”

Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey Heart Listeners! If you're looking for a new podcast recommendation, I have to tell you
0:05.4	about the Kitchen Sisters present. They bring you sound rich stories of hidden
0:09.6	Kitchen's activist archivists, rogue librarians, girls, and the women they become.
0:15.6	Tales of soundhounds, artists, architects, filmmakers, environmentalists.
0:20.5	You'll get some things surprising in every episode. A proud member of the Radiotopia family,
0:25.6	the Kitchen Sisters present is available anywhere you find your podcasts and also at KitchenSisters.org.
0:31.4	From PRX's Radiotopia, welcome to the heart.
0:41.0	I'm Caitlin Prest.
0:44.5	Before the episode, a preview.
0:48.8	Do you want to start?
0:56.9	Me? Yeah.
0:59.2	Yeah, I mean, well, what were you thinking?
1:01.5	That you should start.
1:04.0	What are you waiting for?
1:05.2	She kind of like, it's like, no, no. Like, just kind of like a whisper.
1:12.0	I don't know.
1:13.4	Like, kind of keeping it sexy, but like saying like, no.
1:18.6	The way that you're touching me makes me feel like.
1:20.4	As soon as I knew that sex wasn't an option, I became a bit of a dick.
1:24.8	Later, I'm going to have to tell you that I don't have sex with you.
1:30.4	I mean, I thought that what she wanted was the same thing as what I wanted.
1:34.3	Do you know what I mean?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kaitlin Prest, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Kaitlin Prest and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.