If you have ever been in a long-term relationship or married, it is quite likely that some people around you, at one point of time or another, very willingly and enthusiastically gave you and your partner/spouse advice on how to run your relationship. These could have been parents, in-laws, siblings, members of the extended family, or even friends or co-workers. If being given "good advice" happens not too often, we can always decide whether it is something to ponder on or something that we should let in with one ear and let out with the other. However, sometimes giving "good advice" takes a very wrong turn and becomes a chronic intrusiveness that greatly disturbs or threatens the existence of your relationship/marriage in the long run.  

In this episode, Ashish Parekh and I talk about external influences and interference with relationships/marriages with our guest Prasanna Shivashankaraswamy. We learn how these influences look like in the US, Europe, and India, and discuss what to do if we become a regular recipient of "good advice" from the outside sources more often that we would like.