A road trip can be a profound test of any relationship. It can save a marriage or destroy it.

Starlee Kine gets answers about her parents marriage from her dad...after a lifetime of mystery. She and her sister had wanted her parents to divorce since they were little.

Eight-year-old Betsy Walter goes on a campaign to understand her parents' divorce.

Poet Donald Hall reads about his wife Jane Kenyon, who contracted leukemia, went through treatment, and died. His book is also called Without: Poems.

Audio artist Jay Allison and writer Dan Robb present an audio montage on the moment Robb's parents divorced.

Four years ago, Matt Frerking started having attacks where he simply couldn't move his body.

How one woman learned to stop worrying and start spending. Liz Gilbert and her husband Michael Cooper explain how their different ideas about handling money always divided them—until they stumbled into a $10,000 windfall.

Deb Monroe reports on how she has been mapping her own body through her sense of touch.

What does it mean to talk like a real Southerner—and why a multimillion industry can't seem to figure it out. Southern expatriate Mark Schone dissects Southern accents as they're portrayed in movies and TV shows.

Comedian Will Weldon’s ex-wife made a movie loosely based on their marriage.  Producer Elna Baker watches the film with Will as he revisits his break-up.

The classifieds are populated by people in flux. People selling stuff from old lives in transition new ones.

Writer Julie Showalter on her parents' romance.

Alix Spiegel tells the story of her friend Jayna, who made a Faustian bargain at 11 years old.

Susan Burton rereads her parents' divorce papers—the fine print that changed her life forever.

Susan Burton rereads her parents' divorce papers—the fine print that changed her life forever.

When it comes to political fighting, there's no more intimate a space than a marriage, where you have to get along. Where you have to figure out how to move on and get over disagreement.

Our program ends with a story of knowing your enemy in a more domestic setting: In a marriage. Actor Matt Malloy reads the story by Etgar Keret. "Eight Percent of Nothing" is from a collection of stories called The Nimrod Flip-Out.

Mark Oppenheimer reports on agunah in the Orthodox Jewish community. An agunah is a woman whose husband refuses to give her a divorce – in Hebrew it means "chained wife." If you're an Orthodox Jew, strictly following Jewish law, the only real way to get divorced is if your husband agrees to hand you a piece of paper called a get.

Jackie and Kenny Wharton were kids in the tiny town of Canalou, Missouri, off of old Highway 61. They moved away for 40 years but always dreamed of moving back.