The couple who are never more than 15 feet from each other

[bijou]

TEN years ago, Michael Roach and Christie McNally, Buddhist teachers with a growing following in the United States and abroad, took vows never to separate, night or day.

By “never part,” they did not mean only their hearts or spirits. They meant their bodies as well. And they gave themselves a range of about 15 feet.

If they cannot be seated near each other on a plane, they do not get on. When she uses an airport restroom, he stands outside the door. And when they are here at home in their yurt in the Arizona desert, which has neither running water nor electricity, and he is inspired by an idea in the middle of the night, she rises from their bed and follows him to their office 100 yards down the road, so he can work.

Their partnership, they say, is celibate. It is, as they describe it, a high level of Buddhist practice that involves confronting their own imperfections and thereby learning to better serve the world.

“It forces you to deal with your own emotions so you can’t say, ‘I’ll take a break,’ ” said Mr. Roach, 55, who trained in the same Tibetan Buddhist tradition as the Dalai Lama. After becoming a monk in 1983, he trained on-and-off in a Buddhist monastery for 20 years, and is one of a handful of Westerners who has earned the title of geshe, the rough equivalent of a religious doctorate. “You are in each other’s faces 24 hours a day,” he said. “You must deal with your anger or your jealousy.”

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This was picked up by a writer who, together with his wife, tried it out. here


I can think of few things more likely to destroy a relationship.

[Wretched Excess]

where do you find these things.   I eat 'em up.

[bijou]

where do you find these things.   I eat 'em up.

This one I found by accident while looking up articles on the Naples (Italy) mafia/garbage crisis. But I do enjoy weird stuff.

[mamacags]

He looks 112 years old and she looks about 12.  Weird.  I would end up killing my husband and I actually really like hanging out with him.

[Chris_]

 Now that's a tough couple. I'd have to have a therapist or a twin. I love company by there is a time and place for everything.

[Wretched Excess]

where do you find these things.   I eat 'em up.

This one I found by accident while looking up articles on the Naples (Italy) mafia/garbage crisis. But I do enjoy weird stuff.

well, keep the weird stuff coming.  it makes the lounge go 'round.

[jtyangel]

My issue would not be their togetherness, but their umm 'apartness'. 

[JohnnyReb]

They live in a yurt with no running water or electricity, they don't have sex and they both watch each other closely to make sure the other ain't getting some on the side.......GOOD.....I wouldn't want Al Gores followers reproducing either.

I forgot to ask, what's the carbon footprint of AAA batteries? That girl is smiling to much.

[Miss Mia]

That's just


I mean seriously.   

[DixieBelle]

I bet she does "clearly remember the day she gave up sex". 

[RobJohnson]

They don't have running water but they take jets?

he was a Princeton graduate who in his years studying for the geshe degree also built a personal fortune by helping to grow Andin International, a designer, manufacturer and distributor of fine jewelry, from a start-up to a $100 million-a-year business.

They also do yoga together, breath for breath. “We are always inhaling at the same moment and we are always exhaling at the same moment,” Ms. McNally said. “It is very intimate, but it is not the kind of intimacy people are used to.”

The couple also admit to a hands-on physical relationship that they describe as intense but chaste. Mr. Roach compares it to the relationship his mother had with her doctor when she was dying of breast cancer. “The surgeon lay his hand on her breast, but there wasn’t any carnal thought in his mind,” he said. “He was doing some life-or-death thing. For us it is the same.”

These people are ****ed up.

Comparison of their intimacy to when his mom was being examined by a doctor when she was dying....sick bastards