This is Marriage

Episode 1: Fake Listening and Mis-remembering the Proposal

This is… Marriage: On a rainy day in Paris, Johanna and Eric find a quiet corner (kind of) in the Pompidou Center to discuss how they struggle to listen…

Dec 18, 2020

Episode 5: In Which We Learn Johanna May Not Be a Very Good Person

This episode features tips for living with an asshole and a happy ending… that’s left unsaid. Thanks for listening to our first five episodes recorded…

Jan 5, 2021

Episode 4: On Being Stuck Together, ALL THE TIME...

Years before Covid-19, Eric and Jo and their small child lived in close quarters in an isolated “homestead” high in the southern Rockies. In this…

Dec 29, 2020

Episode 3: In Which We Learn Eric May Not Be a Very Good Person

Still waiting in the noisy Moulin Rouge Starbucks, Jo and Eric discuss their favorite parts of being married and how Eric escaped the misery of his…

Dec 21, 2020

Episode 2: The Horrors of Dating and... Boogers?

This is… Marriage: In a Starbucks across from the Moulin Rouge, Johanna and Eric find a quiet corner (not really) to recall single life and its…

Dec 18, 2020

This... is Marriage, the podcast, is coming soon!

Hi, I’m journalist Eric Mack. Back in 2016, my wife — author Johanna DeBiase — and I recorded a series of short, frank conversations leading up to our…

Dec 7, 2020

This is Marriage

In season one of This Is Marriage, the podcast, journalist Eric Mack interviews his wife, author Johanna DeBiase, about their marriage. The series of frank conversations touches on everything from the horrors of dating to the best way to ignore a spouse.

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