The Sweet Pleasures of Marital Collaboration

I don’t believe that my wife and I have ever collaborated before — at least about something with a goal that extended beyond our relationship or family. We have cooperated a lot (and conflicted quite a bit, too), but not really collaborated until now.

As you may or may not already know, we have recently begun what may be a long-running collaboration. We are doing a podcast together. It is called “Every Day Love.” The show is live (just like radio!) every Tuesday at 7 PM Eastern time. We are “housed” (is that the right term?) on blogtalkradio.com, along, apparently, with a zillion other shows.

The point I want to make here is that the show is a real collaboration. In other words, tune in or listen to one or more of our archived fourteen episodes to date (available here), and there you will find our marriage on display — our marriage much more toward its best so far than its worst.

I’m co-hosting from the third floor of our house, and Joyce is co-hosting from the kitchen. We both contribute. We support each other and build on each other’s points. Then we meet in the kitchen and critique the show together afterward — and we get better at collaborating with each episode.

Excuse me if I appear to be crowing a bit, but our collaboration is a real pleasure. It takes the marriage way beyond “who’s turn it is to do the food shopping“ talk.