“I also knew that he was incredibly loving about the way he let me go through that process,” she continued. “It was really important for me to figure it out. I learned a lot about myself, and I learned a lot about him.”

So, when the couple finally reunited, Ina said it felt like “falling in love with this incredible guy who just happens to be my husband.”

“We talked about what he wanted, what I wanted,” the cookbook author shared. “We worked out that he felt that he couldn’t travel as much as he could because he was married, and I felt like I was responsible for dinner because we were married—and we realized none of those were true.”

That’s why the pair kept up with their unconventional living arrangements for years, with Jeffrey traveling and Ina staying in New York to run her store. As she put it, her marriage “doesn’t have to look like anybody else’s relationship.”

“All of it has to just work for you,” she added. “It doesn’t matter what other people think.”

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