'Love and Marriage in Mumbai'

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🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In honor of Valentine's Day this week, a look at what happens AFTER you get married. Sam talks to PBS reporter and author Liz Flock about her new book, The Heart is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai. Liz spent about 10 years following three Indian couples in both love and arranged marriages. In a country that is rapidly changing, how do those changes impact marriage? Email the show at [email protected] or tweet @NPRItsBeenAMin with your feedback.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, from NPR, it's been a minute.
0:07.4	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:08.7	So this week is Valentine's Day, this Wednesday.
0:11.6	And in that spirit, this episode is all about love and marriage and how it works or does
0:17.4	not.
0:18.4	PBS reporter Liz Flach is my guest today.
0:20.7	She wrote a book about these three couples that are struggling to figure out how to keep
0:24.7	making their marriages work.
0:27.0	The book is called The Heart is a Shifting Sea, Love and Marriage in Mumbai.
0:32.3	And so over the last 10 years or so, Liz has been tracking the lives of these three married
0:38.3	couples.
0:39.3	She's been following the good and the bad and the ugly of their relationships.
0:43.0	But here's the thing, the couples, they are not American, they're Indian.
0:47.1	Liz spent years with these people in Mumbai.
0:49.7	And so the book, it's not just about the couples, it is also about India itself and how the
0:55.2	country is rapidly changing and how that change is playing out in relationships.
1:01.7	I found it all quite fascinating and it really made me ask some questions about my own
1:06.0	attitudes towards long term relationships.
1:09.6	And some of those thoughts I share in this episode and that was perhaps a bit out of my
1:12.7	comfort zone to share that with you.
1:14.3	But I did.
1:15.3	I also talked about Liz's love life too and how writing this book changed the way she
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