S03E06: Priyanka Rai - Finding life partnership with my best friend, moving across the world to live with her

About this episode

Priyanka Rai and Manisha discuss their unconventional life partnership and the challenges they face as they cohabitate and grow older together.

Send us Fan Mail Priyanka and Manisha grew up as conventional childhood best friends not knowing the future of their friendship when they got old. It turns out, whenever life got tough, through their twenties and thirties, they gravitated towards each other geographically moving cities, states and even countries to find solace with each other. Now as they enter their forties, they have decided to introduce a lot more accountability into this partnership which is much more than fair weather friendship to the both of them- they share a home, co-own furniture, a dog, a joint account and function like any other cohabitating family unit. Have they thought about what happens when one of them finds romantic love, do they have a plan for old age? What are the challenges of this unconventional partnership in day to day life and how do they overcome them.. . Find out as you tune in! Support the show

People in this episode

Host: Prickly Peers

Guest: Priyanka Rai

Topics covered

• friendship
• life partnership
• cohabitation
• accountability
• challenges
• personal growth

Keywords

• friendship
• life partnership
• cohabitation
• personal growth
• challenges
• accountability

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