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My Playful Wife — A Tender Literary Love Story
Some love stories aren't about falling in love — they're about staying, and waking up, and choosing each other again.
This is the story of a marriage that comes fully awake, and then quietly widens: two people who open their home to a guarded, passed-over boy and slowly become a family. Tender, warm, and deeply human — an ordinary life told with extraordinary care.
A serialized tender literary audiobook about marriage and family, written by Mia. New episodes daily.
Early episodes + bonus…
Episodes
My Playful Wife — A Tender Literary Love StoryMy Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 87: The Closed Door
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The door to Kabir's room has been open for two years…
My Playful Wife — A Tender Literary Love StoryMy Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 86: The First Time Alone
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Sunday came, as Sundays do, whether or not you…
My Playful Wife — A Tender Literary Love StoryMy Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 85: The New Line
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Kabir is ten now. I have to say it plainly at the…
My Playful Wife — A Tender Literary Love StoryMy Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 84: When It Flowers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! It flowered on a Thursday, in the last cold week of…
My Playful Wife — A Tender Literary Love StoryMy Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 83: The Long Table
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The table in our flat was bought, a long time ago, to…
My Playful Wife — A Tender Literary Love StoryMy Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 82: My Father's Grandson
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! It was Saloni who said I should take Kabir to see my…
My Playful Wife — A Tender Literary Love StoryMy Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 81: The Boy I Was
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Kabir has taken to narrating the marigold to me. Every…
My Playful Wife — A Tender Literary Love StoryMy Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 80: What Grows
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The first real sign that Kabir was going to be all…
My Playful Wife — A Tender Literary Love StoryMy Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 79: The Other Shoe
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The other shoe dropped about a month after the court…
My Playful Wife — A Tender Literary Love StoryMy Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 78: Son
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Nothing changed, the morning after, and that was the…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 77: The Last Station
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The Tuesday came, as Tuesdays do, indifferent to its…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 76: The Court Date
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The letter came on an ordinary morning, as the large…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 75: The Birthday
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! It was the adoption paperwork, again, that surfaced…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 74: What He Brought
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The adoption, once we had begun it, required us to go…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 73: Telling Kabir
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The hardest part, as it turned out, was not the…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 72: The Review
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! There was a review, some months in, an official one…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 71: Tara
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Tara came to the flat on a Sunday, a few weeks after…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 70: A Good Day
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! It was a Sunday, some weeks into the new arrangement…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 69: School
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The terror of school took me by surprise, because I…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 68: The First Storm
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! It came about six weeks in, the first real storm, and…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 67: The Name
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In the early weeks I became aware of an absence at the…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 66: Coming Home
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! He came home on a Thursday, which seems wrong…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 65: Small Steps
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The visits became the shape of our life that season —…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 64: The Meeting
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! We met him on a Saturday morning, in a room at the…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 63: A Face
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The call came on an unremarkable Wednesday, in the…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 62: The Waiting
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The waiting had a texture I had not anticipated, a…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 61: The Long Yes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The wish put on its working clothes faster than I had…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 60: Room Enough
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! I went back to the empty room a great deal, in the…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 59: The New Room
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! We moved, in the end, to the larger flat we had been…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 58: The Awake Years
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! On a Tuesday in the rains, with nothing whatsoever…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 57: The Long View
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! We were clearing the top of the steel almirah on a…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 56: The Apprentice's Question
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Tara stayed late at the workshop on a Thursday, long…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 55: The Sleeping Houses
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! We went, that Saturday, to a dinner at the home of…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 54: The Old Sleep
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! It was the notebook that caught me, in the end — which…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 53: The Fifth Notebook
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! On the third of the month, writing late at the desk by…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 52: Diwali
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! On the evening of Diwali, Saloni knelt on the balcony…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 51: The South Again
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! We flew south again in the spring, to the visit Meera…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 50: The Grey-Green
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The grey-green collection showed in the autumn, almost…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 49: The Hunger
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The hunger came back for Tara in the summer, in the…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 48: The First Lesson
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Tara came to the workshop on the first real morning…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 47: The Apprentice
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The first one came in the spring, and her name was…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 46: The Slightly Bigger Room
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The idea arrived a few weeks after the no, the way her…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 45: After the No
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! She did not say no by email. She said it in person…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 44: What Goes Quiet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The answer came to her on the thirteenth day, the…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 43: The One Who Sold
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! On the tenth day of the fortnight, Saloni did the…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 42: The Bigger Room
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! We spent the fortnight doing the only honest thing…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 41: The Offer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! We answered the email in the morning, the way we now…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 40: The Long Middle
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! With the colour found, the work entered the part…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 39: The Colour
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! For the better part of three weeks, my wife hunted a…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 38: The First Thread
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In the weeks after we came home, the workroom filled…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 37: The Way Home
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! We flew home on a Sunday, and Meera, who books the…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 36: The Four of Us
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! On the last night we ate at his table, the four of us…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 35: The Brother's City
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! We flew south on a Tuesday, into the brother's city…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 34: The Empty Room
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The collection sold, the cloth went out into the world…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 33: The December Room
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The room they gave her for the show was long and white…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 32: The Bias Cut
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! That evening I did a thing I had almost never done in…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 31: The Fifth Notebook
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! I bought the fifth notebook on an ordinary Wednesday…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 30: Full Circle
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A year is a full circle only in the sense that the…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 29: What We Keep
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! There are things you keep and things you let go, and…
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My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 28: The Fourth Notebook
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The fourth notebook was smaller. I chose it…