Modern.
The podcast is supported by produced by the Ilab at WBUR Boston from the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
Im your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
In the most difficult moments we face, we lean on our partners, rely on them, and take turns being the stronger one.
Peter Goodman learned that firsthand as he writes about in his essay superheroes just for each other.
His essay is read by Mike Coulter.
Hes the star of Luke Cage on Netflix, and you can also see him in the Defenders Jessica Jones and the good Wife.
The first time I lifted her up and carried her away, I was acting on a whim, seeking an exit from a stupid but dangerous argument.
Though we lived in the glittering center of Shanghai, we couldnt agree on where to go for dinner, chinese or italian, a high rise restaurant with a commanding view or the leafy garden of a french colonial mansion.
The stakes were hardly critical.
Yet our conflict was a proxy for a deeper question gnawing at our life as a couple.
Where were we headed?
I grew exasperated.
She said, forget dinner.
In previous relationships, I might have stormed out and sought diversion in a bar, writing off the possibility of resolution as both futile and beneath my pride.
This time, though, I swept up Deanna in my arms, damsel in distress style.
Caught by surprise, she succumbed to my rescue.
I had literally elevated us above our stalemate.
We kissed and headed out to dinner, no longer concerned about where we went.