Susie Orbach is the sort of person with whom you want to share everything. She is both warm and abrupt, laughs easily, and has a way of listening to and dissecting my questions, that I find both appealing and unnerving in equal measure. Within five minutes of our discussion about relationships, I find myself explaining how the pandemic has forced me and my boyfriend of two years apart for months at a time, due to us not living together, and how some friends, stuck in close proximity with their partners, say they think we’re lucky.
‘I would say you are,’ she tells me. ‘I think it’s a very hard call when couples who have both had lives of activity suddenly have that activity compressed into a small space, even if they…
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Red UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2021