Hello all. I'm Joe Piazza and you're listening to Committed. Now I've done

hundreds of interviews for this podcast over the years and I have to say

they really help me think about what marriage is, what love is, what partnership is, and also how those things change and evolve over the years.

Today I want to bring you a special episode.

This is from another show that I really love, something that I listen to on a very regular basis.

It is the Love Letters podcast.

And this episode blew me away so much that I actually asked them.

I was like, hey guys, can we put this in our feed so our listeners can hear it?

Here's the story.

Ever since Massachusetts Governor Mora Haley was a kid, music has played a major role in her life.

Songs like I of the Tiger got her pumped for basketball games.

She caught sets from Joan Baez and Melissa Etheridge while working as a cocktail waitress and when she came out in her early 20s she found solace in the indigo girls.

These days the governor uses music to center herself, especially during difficult moments.

And I imagine there are plenty of those as governor.

She and her partner, Joanna Lydgate, sit down with host Meredith Goldstein

to talk about how music helps them in their lives and in their relationship.

I found this so relatable. I will tell you that sometimes I am sitting down with my husband Nick Astor.

Sometimes there is just friction. We're getting on each other's nerves.

Someone forgot to pick up one of the kids.

I've been making doctor's appointments

for the past six months and I'm freaking exhausted.

And then we put on a certain album and we can breathe again.

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