Modern.
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This is modern love stories of love, loss, and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
In any long term relationship, partners are bound to change over time.
You either grow closer or further apart.
But what if that change were out of your control entirely and growing apart became inevitable?
These are questions Robert Saint Amant didn't think too much about until he was forced to.
Peter Gallagher, known for shows like Law and SVU, Grace and Frankie and the OC, reads Robert's essay promises that can.
Bend without breaking in December, my wife and I moved out of our house into an independent living apartment.
Walking through the building, you might take it for a well kept hotel until you notice the handrails lining the hallways, the nursing assistants in the common areas, and the people pushing walkers in front of them rather than pulling luggage carts behind them.
The average resident is close to 80 years old.
The end of the year brought a stream of visitors.
One afternoon, we joined the other residents to meet with fourth graders, who shyly handed us candy canes and Christmas cards.
They had made.
A quartet of a cellist and three violinists.
Their instruments, marked with colored tape to help with the fingering, played for us.
On another day in the common dining room, with chairs and tables pushed out of the way, we have watched young ballet students dancing parts of the nutcracker.
We have listened to a teenage harpist and sung Christmas carols accompanied by a visiting pianist.
I'm not sure I belong here.