Inheriting Divorce

Death, Sex & Money

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Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

I talk with producer Ian Coss about the many divorces in his family, and how learning about them inspired his podcast Forever is a Long Time.

Listen to Forever is a Long Time here, and find The Experiment's SPAM series here.

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0:00.0	I think part of what's so challenging about all these decisions, marriage, divorce,
0:05.0	child bearing, not child bearing is that it's so difficult to disentangle the expectations
0:13.2	from what you want.
0:19.4	This is Death, Sex, and Money.
0:23.4	To show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot, I need to talk about more.
0:30.4	I'm Anna Seal.
0:39.8	This week we're doing something a little different with the help of Ian Koss, and the podcast
0:44.9	he made about divorce and his family.
0:47.6	The series is called Forever is a Long Time.
0:51.3	There's a little bit of the first episode.
0:53.3	Ian is talking with his father, Tom.
0:55.6	Do you remember how Sebastian and I responded to you guys getting divorced?
1:03.2	Because I have no memory of this.
1:05.6	Well, that's interesting you should mention that.
1:08.7	Because that's one of the few scenes that I really can picture.
1:14.1	There was a therapist there at the Worthington Health Center.
1:17.8	Can you picture that?
1:18.8	Up on the hill in Worthington?
1:22.7	We brought you guys there to tell you that we were getting divorced.
1:27.0	I remember that these tears just sort of spontaneously popped out of your eyes.
1:34.4	And you just like, I don't know.
1:38.1	It was unlike you because you're quite stoic and a lot of voice.
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