looks at how couples do their best to stay happily married to each other and to their jobs dealing with distance it works for somewhat happens when its impossible to finds suitable jobs within the same zip code the champatis are in their forties and have been married sixteen years indu is a consultant with coffee day hotels resorts in bangalore sarath is chief naturalist head of training for taj safaris in the forests of kanha in madhya pradesh they meet once a month in bangalore or somewhere in between they have no children which indu says has probably made the decision to live apart easier no she doesnt miss having sarath around when a leaky tap needs attention but yes she does miss having someone to talk to when she comes home when hes around the house seems fuller but she adds im doing well on my own and so is hethey intend to stay this way for a while sarath is truly passionate about nature and i will not interfere with that says indu after all there is just one life to live it helped too that when she chose to spend two years in the us after they got married her husband was supportive of her decision what works in marriages like this is understanding each other well and respecting each others passions we also figure that this is the time we can be apart and still do what we want to do once we get old then perhaps we wont be able to do this a yearlong separation almost proved damaging for media professionals himani and gaurav nanda but they worked hard to salvage an unravelling situation when himani in her midthirties moved from bangalore to pune as editor of a lifestyle publication in 2008 the longdistance factor and their highpressure jobs began to take a toll they began to grow apart talking less on the phone putting each other on the back burner the pressures of a new job kept me so busy i hardly had time to talk to my husband says himani over time we developed separate social circles and separate reference points and topics of conversation decreased leading to a bit of a mental disconnect operation salvage included more talking to each other and meeting at least once a month they made sure they were together on birthdays anniversaries and festivals i spent a lot of money travelling back and forth between bangalore and pune but it saved our marriage says gaurav the separation made us realise how important it is for us to be together and we have decided that we will not give that up for a job or anything else ever again gaurav moved to pune when we got together we had to start from scratch and get used to being with one another once again he says but the process also helped us rediscover our relationship never