What happens when you want to live alone, but stay married? How much room do your relationships hold for each person to grow? What are you willing (and unwilling!) to compromise on?

Ev'Yan Whitney (they/she) joins us to share details about the time they recently spent living apart from their husband, Jonathan, and what it looked like for them to be apart, together. We talk about establishing your own identities and individuality in a long-term relationship, and explore what it means to grow together vs grow apart. 

You can find Ev'Yan at evyanwhitney.com and on IG @evyan.whitney

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The Pop-Up Pod is 100% listener-supported via our sliding scale Patreon (thanks, ya'll!) which ensures that everyone involved in the show's creation & production gets paid (host, sound engineer, transcriptionist, and all guests!) 

[Full transcript of this episode is available here]

What does commitment look like? Who are you committed to? What does it really mean to be committed to someone, particularly if you do not want to get married?

Melissa Fabello (she/her) joins us to talk through these big questions, as well as topics like relationship anarchy, maintaining friendships and outside bonds while in romantic partnership, and more. 

You can find Melissa at melissafabello.com and on IG @fyeahmfabello

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The Pop-Up Pod is 100% listener-supported via our sliding scale Patreon (thanks, ya'll!) which ensures that everyone involved in the show's creation & production gets paid (host, sound engineer, transcriptionist, and all guests!) 

[Full transcript of this episode is available here]

Welcome to The Pop-Up Pod: a new podcast that’s similar to a pop-up shop or a pop-up restaurant in that it’s sporadic— sometimes it’s here, and sometimes it’s not!

When a new season does air, it will feature 12-episode explorations of life's most common & interesting questions. Our question for season 1 is this: Should I Get Married?

Join host Nicole Antoinette and her guests as they explore love, sex, and money, cohabitation, partnership without self-abandonment, monogamy and non-monogamy, growing together versus growing apart, the privileges, oppressions, traditions, and expectations of marriage, and so much more — all with honesty & curiosity, in the hopes that we can learn from each other while also being reminded that we are never alone.

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This show is 100% listener-supported on Patreon, which ensures that everyone is paid (host, sound engineer, transcriptionist, and guests!) 

[Transcript of this episode available here]