105. mom-ogomish: horizontal with expat parents (2 of 4)

horizontal with lila

Hello horizontal lovers.

horizontal with lila is Slow Radio.

Consensual eavesdropping.

Intimate talks about intimate topics recorded while lying down right next to each other, wearing robes.

This is part two of my four-episode arc with Eri Kardos Patel and Jaymin Patel, recorded in February 2020.

Eri & Jay are world travelers, long-time digital nomads, co-parents of two young children, and American expats in Bali. Eri is the author of the book Relationship Agreements, Jaymin the creator of The Integrated Father.

In part one, episode 104. good kids gone wild, Jay and I told our origin stories, and Eri began hers.

Jaymin’s story involved a strict Indian family, sisters and aunties aplenty, bi-cultural identity, being a model Hindu and a very very very good boy, doing right by his parents, musical theatre, people-pleaser recovery, embracing his weird, Adlerian psych, and positive discipline.

Eri’s involved 3 siblings, constant uprootings, dance, 5 or 6 baptisms, being a very very very good girl, backpacking across the world, youth hostel life, sex addiction worries & Christian counseling, one excellent Sugar Daddy, Seattle, sex-positivity, and her longtime open relating partner Adam.

In part two, we pick up with:

• Eri’s sexy Seattle life
• BDSM as a highway to vulnerability
• the art of submission
• aftermath of a fight or regrettable incident
• being seen, heard, & loved
• reprogramming people’s erotic lives
• open relating vs. open relationships
• and how the longtime nomad couple finally settled in Bali.

This conversation was recorded over the course of approximately 5 hours.

It’s divided into four parts: the first two, episodes 104 & 105, are available in all the podcast places, and the last two: episodes 106 & 107, will be exclusive to patrons of the horizontal arts.

For access to The Full Horizontal, including 106, 107, and all the part twos (or in this case, threes and fours), become a patron of the horizontal arts!

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Now come lie down with us again, in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.