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Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

S06.34: Marriage in Trouble, the Mercury Retrograde of Romance Novels

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9889 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

For our forever favorite, Kate Clayborn, our third Fated Mates Live episode! During the absolutely delightful event (we had so much fun!), Kate selected an interstitial topic that we’ve never tackled, somehow? It’s time for Marriage in Trouble! We talk about the old school bones of the trope, with ingenue wives and the jaded heroes who have to crawl over glass for them, about marriages that carry enormous secrets, the grovel, the heir, and about the threat of divorce motivating men toward being their best selves. Is this good marriage therapy? It is not. Is it good podcasting? It is.

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0:00.0

I feel like this was a really good idea by the way. I'm going to take credit for it because I think this one was my idea. I think it was your idea and I think it's a great idea.

0:09.0

Especially because it feels like we're really like knocking out interstitial episodes that I thought

0:14.2

that we maybe had already done before like so it's pretty great yes I did have a

0:20.2

moment while I was preparing for this one where I was like did we do

0:23.1

amnesia we'll get to why and I mean I can't believe we did amnesia but one of the

0:30.0

things that I struggle with all the time with these with with like when I think back is like we

0:35.6

couldn't have possibly done amnesia because I've never read an amnesia book

0:39.1

before. No of course And then there it is.

0:52.3

Listen, I can't get over the fact that we're six seasons in and we, now I like go to Fated Mates website to like find books to read. Yeah. Yeah. So, big week in romance. Everybody's

0:58.0

pissed about something. To everybody. Let's talk about astrology for a minute

1:01.4

because a couple weeks ago, Sarah was like,

1:04.3

I'm gonna get out my charts. Sarah's like, listen, you're gonna need to keep it tight

1:09.7

because apparently every astrologer in the world says the next two weeks are going to just be intense, right?

1:15.2

Listen, like the last week of March everyone was like, every astrologer was like, I don't know,

1:21.4

April might destroy the world, we don't know April might destroy the world we don't know I mean it's mid-April so we still

1:26.9

don't know what's coming but you told me like the 12th was really like gonna be a right

1:31.6

make it through the 12th is what everybody

1:35.0

seems to seem to have believed although mercury remains in retrograde which is so

1:41.2

everybody thinks that mercury retrograde is like everybody blames everything on it like oh

1:45.6

I tripped and fell it's Mercury retrograde I'm gonna tell you about Mercury retrograde

1:50.4

gem because it makes me mad when people are like oh I like I don't know I the

1:55.4

the oat milk that was a there was no oat milk at the store and it's mercury retrograde

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