The search is on for a couple to train as astronauts, for a privately funded mission to Mars. But wouldn’t any couple squabble if cooped up together for 18 months? Explorer Deborah Shapiro, who spent more than a year with her husband in the Antarctic, provides some marital survival tips.
It never ceases to amaze us, but the most common question Rolf and I got after our winter-over, when we spent 15 months on the Antarctic Peninsula, nine of which were in total solitude, was: Why didn’t you two kill each other?
We found the question odd and even comical at first, because the thought of killing each other had never crossed our minds.
We’d answer glibly that because we relied on each other for survival, murder would be counter-productive.
Excerpt from an article on BBC. Continue HERE
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