"Distance has no way of making love understandable," goes the refrain to Radio Cure by rock group Wilco. That chorus could have been penned with scientist couples in mind. After I wrote about the difficulties researchers have in maintaining romantic relationships (see Nature 446,463; 2007), I received the largest ever e-mail response to this column. Almost all of the messages agreed that maintaininga marriage while building a scientific career is difficult — especially when the spouse or partner is also a scientist. The main reason cited was the difficulty of both partners being able to find a job in the same city — or even the same time zone — as the other.
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