Matt Haig
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2,177 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Matt Haig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's always hard to explain a relationship to people outside the relationship because every relationship is its own strange world.
But I think with us, we'd always been there for each other.
And certainly in our very early years,
There'd been arguments where, you know, there'd been times where she was less than perfect as well and behaved badly.
And there'd been forgiveness on both sides.
It's a relief to hear that.
It's a relief to hear that.
I mean, I definitely take the trophy for worst.
But, you know, she wasn't perfect in her younger years either.
But I think we both felt...
like as well as being partners we were primarily friends like proper friends and it's really hard to walk away from friends and it doesn't mean you have to stay in a relationship with someone but I feel like yeah I feel like on paper she should have left me quite a few times and certainly in our first
10 15 years and i i don't know i mean i'm so i think i think she's glad now that we've stuck the course because i think we have a couple we always saw in ourselves did you decide to have children yes and did you talk about given your histories whether that was a responsible thing to do
Yes.
I mean, yes, we did.
But I will say I struggled with the idea, simply because of my mum's history and, you know, her being adopted, my own insecurities, my own sense that I wasn't a responsible person.
But as with so much of life, you need to sort of like experience the thing to do the thing.
And so I actually...
ended up loving being a father and it changing me as much as anything changed me.
But not to say it was all easy or that I was a perfect father, but it's again having that thing outside of yourself.
Midnight Library I think I try and just write to because I was a little bit sort of lonely sometimes as a kid I try and write to connect and to have a sort of to send out a signal I suppose to the world and get connected back so I don't know but I just try and write honestly and sometimes you can do that more in fiction
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