Tokyo Tales: We're Not Soul Mates

Tokyo Tales - The Simon and Martina Podcast

Simon and Martina

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

5 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We think the idea of soul mates is giving people the wrong idea of what it takes to make a relationship work. Happily Ever After doesn't really tell people how much work goes into a marriage. So, we'll talk a bit about what we do, what you don't see, and our thoughts on marriage counselling in this week's episode!

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Simon. And we're broadcasting out of Kichi Joji. Tokyo Japan, the loveliest part of all of Japan.
0:06.5	It is quite beautiful right now. It's cherry blossom season. Yes. It's getting really warm and then super cold at night and you're inappropriately dressed for the balance.
0:15.0	It's like 21 degrees in the afternoon. And then something like four degrees or one degree at night. It's just the temperature
0:22.8	changes so abruptly. We're on our bicycles. We're like, why did we wear our hoodies today? And the two of us
0:27.1	are like, like shaking cold. But otherwise, it's lovely. It's springtime. The birds are out.
0:32.2	Frickin flowers are coming up. Sakaro's almost happening. And today we're going to be talking
0:36.5	about love. Yeah. And a we're going to be talking about love.
0:37.7	Yeah.
0:38.0	And a thesis that I think is a harsh one, but I'm going to try to defend it in a way that
0:44.7	doesn't sound bad.
0:45.6	And this is our own thesis.
0:46.7	This isn't someone else's.
0:47.9	And the thesis is you and I are not soulmates.
0:51.6	Ooh.
0:52.1	That's a tough one.
0:52.8	And I, so there's a little bit of like, backstory to this.
0:56.0	So I was on Reddit the other day and I found a tweet.
0:59.8	It's not from one of you guys or anything.
1:01.0	It was just a online one, right?
1:02.8	Yeah.
1:03.4	And it's from Iman Europe.
1:06.5	I don't know who this is, but they're verified on Twitter. And it says, don't let this tainted
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