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Positive Thinking: Is Thinking About Divorce the Secret to a Happy Marriage?

Is Thinking About Divorce the Secret to a Happy Marriage?

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Jeannie Suk Gersen who claims pre-marriage mediation is the key to a lasting relationship.

Sangita Myska talks to Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen, who believes pre-marriage mediation is the key to a lasting relationship.

Sangita Myska goes in search of the innovators with big solutions to our most intractable problems. 

In this episode, Sangita meets Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen who believes pre-marriage mediation is the key to a lasting relationship. 

If you want to understand what makes a marriage work, says Jeannie, you should think about how a marriage ends. Divorce makes the rules of marriage explicit, and understanding those rules can help us build better relationships from the beginning. 

But is it possible to predict future tensions and sidestep them in this way? Sangita puts Jeannie’s idea to a panel of experts to see if it’s a model for marriage that could work for British couples.


Contributors include:
Jeannie Suk Gersen, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
Davina Katz, Senior Partner of Katz Partners, a divorce and family law firm specialising in high net worth and complex cases. 
Dr Raksha Pande, Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University and author of Learning to Love: Arranged Marriages and the British Indian Diaspora.
Andrew G Marshall, marital therapist and host of The Meaningful Life podcast

Producer: Eve Streeter
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