How To! — Side by Side: The Sacred Art of Couples Aging with Wisdom & Love
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3.8 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 42 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Can you two tell us about a recent date or, you know, another moment just even if it was at home in your backyard where you kind of looked at each other and said, this is beautiful? |
| 0:09.9 | So this year is going to be our three-year anniversary on the 3rd of November. |
| 0:15.2 | And we decided that leading up to it, we were going to book an activity for each other, a surprise activity for each other. |
| 0:22.6 | Suspense! |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to how to. I'm Courtney Martin. |
| 0:29.8 | The other day, we heard from a listener who we're going to call Anjali. |
| 0:33.6 | She's experiencing those blissful early days of marriage. |
| 0:37.9 | So, my name is Anjali. |
| 0:39.3 | I live in London. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm a secondary school teacher. |
| 0:42.0 | I teach English. |
| 0:44.0 | And this is Anjali's husband, who we're calling Rahul. |
| 0:48.8 | Hi, my name is Rahul. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm a mechanical engineer and right now work at Amazon in their operations team. |
| 0:57.0 | When did you fall in love? Tell us this story. |
| 0:59.4 | Oh, I feel like it's happening every day. |
| 1:03.7 | So we met in London. We met on a dating app. I used to work in Seattle, and I had moved to |
| 1:09.3 | London just for a year. So it was just meant to be a one-year assignment. |
| 1:12.6 | And I met Anjali in month 11 and we immediately connected and I kind of paused and decided |
| 1:20.4 | to not move back to Seattle and stay in London. Yeah, but I didn't know that he was supposed to move |
| 1:25.1 | back. So we met in June and he was due to move back in July and all the paperwork had gone through. |
| 1:31.1 | And then we started dating and then it was maybe October, November when he's like, oh yeah, I was just, I was supposed to leave and I didn't because I met you in a very nonchalant way. |
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