Happy together, living apart
May 05, 2021
4 minutes
Words MAJA HAVRILOVA
My partner of nine years, Mark, and I come from opposite sides of the earth: I’m from Australia, he is from the UK. Cheap international flights, freedom of movement (except when there is a worldwide pandemic) and modern technology have shaped our identity as world citizens. It was globalisation that brought us together, then drove us apart and finally offered us a new way to conduct our relationship by giving us the space to question the traditional — and apparently inevitable — heterosexual paradigm of “boy meets girl and they move in together”.
Mark and I moved into a small
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