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This Is Uncomfortable

Together, apart

This Is Uncomfortable

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News, Business

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Six years in, Sana and Adnan Akhand loved being married to each other. But sharing everything — their apartment in New York City, their money, the household duties, all their free time — shook the balance of power in their marriage, and they ended up feeling stuck. They were looking for a big reset, and found that they had to interrogate their fundamental ideas about what makes a good marriage to see their future together.

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0:00.0

About six years into their marriage,

0:05.0

Sana and Adnanakond felt stuck.

0:08.1

Their relationship was not where they wanted it to be.

0:10.6

And it's not because something massive happened.

0:12.7

No one cheated, no one was abusive.

0:15.0

No, this is a story really about small day-to-day things

0:18.4

and how they can snowball into something much larger

0:21.1

until suddenly you're staring at an avalanche.

0:23.9

It can be like a baby avalanche,

0:25.8

but still you're standing there wondering,

0:28.0

wait, how did we get here?

0:31.1

Like, we became hyper aware of what we don't enjoy in married life.

0:37.5

I felt like, oh my god, this is not the life I thought I was going to live.

0:42.1

They both very much loved each other and wanted to stay together,

0:45.4

but it was the most mundane run-of-the-mill parts of married life

0:48.8

that started to take a toll on them,

0:50.8

like when it came to cleaning their apartment.

0:53.0

His clothes everywhere, oh my god, he will not...

0:57.3

It's impossible for him to just like,

1:00.0

to hang his clothes, basically.

1:02.2

That's true, she hated that.

1:03.4

And I think she's definitely a kitchen clean freak,

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