About My Playful Wife — A Tender Literary Love Story
Some love stories aren't about falling in love — they're about staying, and waking up, and choosing each other again.
This is the story of a marriage that comes fully awake, and then quietly widens: two people who open their home to a guarded, passed-over boy and slowly become a family. Tender, warm, and deeply human — an ordinary life told with extraordinary care.
A serialized tender literary audiobook about marriage and family, written by Mia. New episodes daily.
Early episodes + bonus chapters are on my Patreon. Links in the description.
My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 88: The Two of Us, Still
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On a Saturday in February, Kabir went to Dada's for the night and Tara's family took him to something on the Sunday, and Saloni and I found ourselves alone in our flat for twenty-six consecutive hours for the first time in two and a half years. I had been looking forward to it for a fortnight with an anticipation I now find slightly embarrassing, the way a man looks forward to a holiday he has not planned. Twenty-six hours. I had done the arithmetic more than once, on more than one evening, with the quiet satisfaction of a miser. And it is worth recording that not once in that entire fortnight of looking forward did I actually ask myself what, precisely, I was looking forward to doing — as though the hours themselves were the thing, as though emptiness were a destination rather than a...
My Playful Wife is a serialized tender literary audiobook about marriage and family, written by Mia. New episodes daily.
29 Oct 2026
My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 87: The Closed Door
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The door to Kabir's room has been open for two years. It is closed now, and has been most evenings for about a month, and I have had to teach myself, in that month, not to knock.
I want to explain what that open door used to mean, because otherwise the closed one is just a boy being moody and this is not a story about a boy being moody. When Kabir first came to us he did not close doors. He did not close the bathroom door properly. He did not close his bedroom door at night, would not have it closed, would call out if the wind moved it, because a closed door was a thing that happened between you and the adults, and behind it decisions were made about where you would be sent next. A door was not privacy to him. A door was the sound of your life being discussed without you. So we lived...
My Playful Wife is a serialized tender literary audiobook about marriage and family, written by Mia. New episodes daily.
28 Oct 2026
My Playful Wife — Season 1, Episode 86: The First Time Alone
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The Sunday came, as Sundays do, whether or not you have finished being ready for them.
I had spent the week doing what I imagine every parent does in the days before a thing like this, which is to conduct a long silent negotiation with myself and lose it repeatedly. I had rehearsed the route in my head more times than Kabir had. I had thought, more than once, about quietly withdrawing the permission — about manufacturing some reasonable-sounding reason, a cold coming on, a change in the weather, the vague and unfalsifiable it just doesn't feel like the right week — and I knew every time that I would not do it, because to give a boy that particular yes and then take it back on a pretext would teach him something about me, and about the reliability of adults, that I have spent two years...
My Playful Wife is a serialized tender literary audiobook about marriage and family, written by Mia. New episodes daily.
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