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Welcome to our season premiere. Seven years into a serious relationship, Jake Maynard got a text from his mother: \u201cGramma Gert: 3, Jake: 0.\u201d This was her way of telling him that his grandmother, in her 80s, was getting married for the third time, while Jake remained unmarried and childless in his late 20s. His family found this strange. Stranger still, at least in Jake\u2019s view, was his grandmother\u2019s choice of partner. (You\u2019ll have to listen to the episode.) Today, we explore how two generations of the same family \u2014 50 years apart \u2014 grapple with identity, tangled kin and the loaded question of marriage.