The strain on our marriages would have been intense enough had the four of us not all been writing for the show. Consider the dynamics. Marshall and I were writing about Michael and Hope raising a newborn while Liberty and I were raising a newborn. Liberty, meanwhile, was writing about Michael being too obsessed with work and that he wasn’t sharing the burden of raising a newborn. As showrunners, Marshall and I gave Liberty notes suggesting that she wasn’t being fair to me, I mean Michael, who was overwhelmed by work. Liberty was also overwhelmed by work, simultaneously writing for a TV show
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