Ep. 29: "Lessons from a Marriage"

Relatively Ordinary · Jun 2, 2026 · 54m

Betsy brings a topic ripped straight from Maine headlines — the Graham Platner Senate race and the media's gleeful dissection of his marriage — and uses it to ask a bigger question: why are we so obsessed with other people's relationships? What follows is an honest conversation about how we actually judge marriage success (spoiler: it's mostly vibes), what non-traditional arrangements reveal about the assumptions we didn't know we were making, and what nearly two decades of being deeply known by another person does to your sense of self. Also, Karl's soul mate doesn't believe in soul mates…