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When cyber dating and relationship expert Julie Spira first started seeing her athlete boyfriend, he was confined to bed following a knee replacement.
But instead of hitting the brakes on their budding relationship and potentially losing interest while he recovered, they were saved by “Breaking Bad.”
Spira had never seen the AMC hit series, but her boyfriend was hooked. Given there wasn’t much the pair could do together while he spent weeks convalescing, they did what many modern couples do: They binge watched.
“Some days we’d watch five episodes. It became part of his recovery,” Spira said. “We created a new memory together. We still talk about the time we spent watching that show while he was recovering.”
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