For this series I spent time at Kaladi Coffee in Denver asking folks how they lost a job. Stephanie was working in a hardware store with her boyfriend, who managed to get them both fired. You might think that’s all there is to the story, but there is more.

Jennifer’s answer to the question I posed at The Market in Larimer Square was short and sweet. I asked what her therapist told her she should do. Jennifer said forgive everyone, everything. And wait until you hear what Jennifer had to learn to forgive!

From a series of interviews I hosted and produced at Kaladi Coffee in Denver, here is Sarah’s story. I’d asked her to tell me what her therapist told her she should do. The answer: not be afraid to express her needs.

From a series of conversations on different themes that I hosted and produced at Denver-area coffeehouses, here is Kim’s story. She said her therapist told her in a couples counseling session that she should trust her instincts and separate from her husband. This, even though the therapist was a Christian counselor and he knew that step would likely lead to divorce.

My parents’ relationship began through a series of letters they exchanged after first meeting in Florida in 1955. Over the course of 18 months, they wrote nearly a thousand letter while Dad was on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific and Mom was in Florida and Tennessee. They were married in 1957. The audio portrait I produced in 2007 describes how they fell in love through those letters and how they have remained in love since then.

From a series of conversations at Kaladi Coffee in Denver, this theme is about the moment someone first knew he/she was in love. For Sophia, that moment led to marriage…and divorce.

Melissa was married the moment she knew she was in love. But it wasn’t her husband that grabbed her attention. Several years and two divorces later, that love is blossoming. Recorded at Kaladi Coffeehouse in Denver.

Chris says the worst thing he ever did was get married. The resulting lack of trust from that split, he says, has messed up his life for the past ten years. This interview is part of the series recorded at Kaladi Coffeehouse in Denver.

The best thing Jen ever did was take time off a job to travel in Southeast Asia with her husband, but I was curious why she didn’t say the best thing she ever did was get married. This interview was recorded in Denver at Kaladi Coffeehouse as part of my ongoing series on different themes.

John says his mother never told him that a relationship going smoothly, he thought, could just blow up in his face. His mother stayed married, so what’s changed about relationships these days? Recorded at St. Mark’s Coffeehouse.