Redux: Body Weight and Romance

Dear Sugars

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Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally released on August 19, 2017. It’s never easy to talk to our romantic partners about their bodies, especially when it’s about weight. The Sugars, along with writer Ashley C. Ford, answer letters from people questioning their relationships because of major changes in their partners’ bodies.

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0:52.0	The The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. I'm Steve Allman. I'm Cheryl Straight. This is dear sugars.
0:57.0	Oh dear son, won't you please?
1:05.0	Share some better sweet days with me.
1:10.0	I don't. I check my bell drives every day.
1:17.0	Oh, in the sugar,
1:20.0	in the sugar you see in my way.
1:29.0	Hi Cheryl.
1:30.0	Hi, Steve.
1:31.0	Today we are going to talk about body weight and romance.
1:35.9	We were getting tons of letters from letter writers who were like most of us in a state of confusion,
1:42.3	shame, anguish, conflict about their own bodies and how profoundly
1:47.6	that impacts our effort to love and be loved with partners who also have their own set of complex fraught feelings about their bodies.
1:54.8	Yeah, and we're going to talk today about what do you do when your partner has a body that causes you some
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