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This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
Sometimes it's the things that go unsaid in a relationship that are the most important.
Andrea Jarrell found that out not long after moving to Maine with her husband.
She writes about it in her essay a measure of desire.
It's read by Kim Dickens from Fear the walking dead.
We moved from Los Angeles to Maine with four years of sobriety under our belts, a two year old daughter and another baby on the way.
The sobriety was my husband's.
He'd been offered a job in Camden, and I was ready to leave mine.
I hoped a simpler life would save us from further dangers that can creep into relationships, serpents in the grass like infidelity, boredom, debt.
We arrived that fall at our blue Cape style house with the dormer windows I'd always wished for as a child.
That first winter we skated on frozen Maguntukook Lake.
We were assured there was no danger of falling through, despite how the ice popped like gunfire as the whole town, or so it seemed, in circles.
By Christmas, we placed single candles in each window instead of stringing colored lights the way we would have back in LA.
And I gave birth in an ice storm.
My californian mother, hurt that we had taken her grandchildren across the country, moved to New York City to be the urbanite she'd always dreamed of being.
We began to make the six hour drive to see her.