So you don't know me, this is a hard question to answer perhaps, but I'm just, you will be fine.

You're going to be just perfectly happy. Is that what you're going to?

This is death, sex, and money.

Don't you say your goodbyes?

Not yet.

Do you understand me?

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

I love this woman and I have to tell her and need to talk about more.

I think I want my money back.

I'm Anna Sale.

And I know I told you you wouldn't hear from me until after I'm married, but I had a nice conversation with

Cindy Schupak who wrote a book called The Longest Date, Life as a Wife.

And I wanted to share it with you before I go off to do this thing.

Cindy is an Emmy-winning television writer and producer.

She worked on Everybody Loves Raymond, then Sex in the City, then Modern Family,

so she's been part of this massive change in the ways we tell stories about marriage and family

in America, particularly for women.

Cindy grew up in Oklahoma and moved to New York after college.

She got married at 25 and then divorced two years later when her first husband realized he was gay. After that her writing

career blew up and she did a lot of dating. She married her current husband Ian 10

years ago when she was 40. You know when I first met Ian I thought he was the

opposite of what I needed because he really didn't seem to want to settle down at

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