When I write for ESSENCE, I cover entertainment but I have been dying to cover relationships for them because I am fascinated by how people stay together, why they break up and what they argue about etc. (I also have this unhealthy obsession with Divorce Court too. If you thought your relationship was jacked up, you MUST watch this show. You will have second thoughts about the definition of crazy, sexy, cool.)
Oh, and I used to have a Facebook Live show called Tea With T that was allll about relationships, sex and love. So I get my idée fixe with relationships quite honestly.
Anyway, I got an email from the relationships editor at Essence about cranking out a four-page feature about how diverse couples, despite their differences, make love work. And when I say diverse, I mean, my challenge was to find a regular smegular Black Republican (that wasn’t Herman Cain or Clarence Thomas) married to a Democrat and find a happily married couple that worshipped different Gods.
Whoa. What did I get myself into?
There was the biggest how to question staring me in the face: How do I interview four couples without losing my mind?
My first challenge was to FIND these lovebirds because let’s face it, there aren’t too many Democrats lovin’ up on members of the GOP. Let’s just be honest. I needed my social media “friends” to do the heavy lifting. I knew that any number of them and would connect me to a couple of different faiths. And they did, I had the best convo with a Muslim and Hare Krishna couple who taught people how to love better.
BOOM! The universe was conspiring in my favor.
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