How To!: Build a Marriage That Lasts

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🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate their third wedding anniversary, Anjali and Rahul are each selecting a surprise activity to do together. This happy couple loves spontaneity, so they’re concerned about someday growing bored in their relationship. They’re also feeling pressure to mark the traditional milestones of marriage, including having kids. On this episode of How To!, authors Caryl and Jay Casbon join us to share the wisdom they gained from interviewing other married couples for their book Side by Side. The Casbons draw upon their own 22-year marriage to urge Anjali and Rahul to face conflict with openness and focus on individual “inner work”—in order to grow together. Learn more about Caryl and Jay Casbon here. If you liked this episode, check out an episode that Anjali loved: How To Decide Whether to Have a Baby with Wild author Cheryl Strayed. Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. How To’s executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. The show is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis and Jabari Butler. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.0	Hey everybody, it's Tim Heidecker, you know me, Tim and Eric, Bridesmaids and Fantastic Four.
0:34.8	I'd like to personally invite you to listen to Office Hours Live with me and my co-hosts,
0:39.7	DJ, Doug Pound, and Vic Berger.
0:42.6	Howdy.
0:43.6	Every week we bring you laughs, fun, games, and lots of other surprises.
0:46.5	It's live, we take your Zoom calls.
0:48.4	We love having fun.
0:49.4	Songs.
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0:51.4	Music.
0:52.4	I like having fun. I like to... songs. subscribe. Can you too tell us about a recent date?
1:05.0	Or you know, another moment just even if it was at home in your backyard where you kind of looked at each other
1:10.0	and said, this is beautiful.
1:12.0	So this year is going to be our three year anniversary
1:15.9	on the third of November and we decided that leading up to it we were going to book an
1:20.7	activity for each other, a surprise activity for each other.
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