WBWR Podcasts, Boston.

The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.

Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.

I'm Cheryl Strayed.

I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.

Oh dear song, won't you please?

Share some better sweet days with me.

I check my bedbugs every day.

Oh, and this sugar, using my way.

Hi Cheryl.

Hi Steve.

So, you know, in our inbox we get lots of letters from people who are looking for love or whose relationship is imperiled in some way.

And we also get a certain number of letters and increasing number of letters from people who are actually thrilled with the relationship they're in, which we always think, oh great, fantastic.

And then of course, because it's a Dear Sugar Radio, maybe there's that big beauty.

And in this case, that thing is their career goals.

We're going to hear a couple of letters from women who are really quite ecstatic about the relationships they're in, but who also have specific career goals that in their minds and in the world are complicating and imperiling this happy relationship that they're in.

Has that ever happened to you?

I know listeners of the show know you and Brian have a great relationship, but they also know that you have a high-powered career.

Were those two in your mind and or heart ever enemies?

I haven't generally struggled with this in my relationship with Brian because of course he is also a freelance artist.

And I'm a writer, he's a filmmaker, but I do remember when we had first fallen in love and moved in together, so we were committed to each other, cohabitating.

And we both felt that this was going to be a relationship that we hoped lasted a lifetime.

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