S02E01 -- Is Graduate School or my New Academic Career Going to End my Relationship? Part One of the Relationship Series in Graduate School as requested by you, the listener.

Summary: Starting off our first season two episode, the Unlikely Academics Discuss many of the unforeseen challenges of relationships in graduate school and beyond. They discuss the current research on the topic (or in many cases the lack thereof) as well as their own experiences with relationships, graduate school, and breakups as well as divorce. The co-hosts discuss the strain graduate school can have on relationships mainly related to family time, commitments, managing partner expectations, and finding ways to share the burden of home life with your partner. Further, we discuss how a lack of communication regarding relationship expectations, moving, handling financial challenges, and how relationships with others professionally and personally can contribute to relationship issues. They also discuss the unfair burden placed on especially women in graduate school-related to family commitments, the assumption of gender roles including cooking and cleaning, and responsibility for children either current or future should be taken into account when planning for graduate school or early career. The co-hosts conclude with their own stories of break up and divorce as well as the relationship challenges experienced by the co-host and their current or former partners and the lessons learned from these experiences.