In this episode of Behind The Scenes, Priyanka talks to Dr Shobha and Dr Anand. This couple met for the first time in 1991 in a typical arranged marriage setup. They got engaged a week after they first met, got married another week after and started living together only 6 months after they got married. Today, when they look back on their 30 year partnership, Dr Shobha and Dr Anand say that building their relationship was a gradual process, nurtured by patience and commitment. They have travelled the world together, and are settled in Cornwall in UK. 

In this episode of Behind The Scenes, Priyanka talks to Apoorva and Devaraj, a happily married couple in Austin, Texas. Apoorva & Devaraj's story is a classic friendship turned to romance which eventually led to them getting married in 2014. While they’ve been married for 6.5 years now, they spent the first half of their marriage living thousands of miles apart as Devaraj went to Texas A&M to pursue his masters while Apoorva continued working in Bangalore. When they finally started living together a couple of years later, they began to fall in love all over again, but with the new people each of them had become living apart. This happy go lucky couple with a great sense of humour have never had any big fights, and we're about to find out how.

In this episode of Behind The Scenes, Priyanka talks to Smitha and Sukruth, a happily married couple who live in Singapore. Smitha leads APJ strategy for Dell Technologies and Sukruth is an engineer with Xilinx. They first met in 2001 at their engineering college in Bangalore. It was apparent from the get go that they were two very different people, but over time, they started seeing how the differences in their personalities perfectly complemented one another. They started dating after they graduated, but soon after Smitha went to XLRI to do her MBA and Sukruth went to Georgia Tech for his masters, but the distance only made these hearts grow fonder. They got married in 2010, and they have two children, Avani and Advay, ages 7 and 4. 

Growing up, we’ve listened to countless stories that end with meeting your soulmate, getting married and living happily ever after. But is that all to relationships? We hope to unravel marriage through stories of real relationships in the first season of the Marriage Broker Auntie podcast, Behind the Scenes. This is an audio series documenting the lives of happily married couples who’ve committed to building healthy relationships everyday.

I am your host, Priyanka Bharadwaj, Founder & CEO of www.marriagebrokerauntie.com. We'll be speaking with seven amazing couples from across the globe who've graciously come forward to share their relationship stories. You are now listening to the trailer of Behind The Scenes. The full conversations will be available on the Marriage Broker Auntie Youtube Channel as well as Spotify. Please follow and subscribe to our channel if you haven’t done so already so you can have access to the future episodes when they’re out. 

You can also go to our website marriagebrokerauntie.com to learn more about this project and the work we do.