Redux: The Stepchild's Dilemma

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Whether you’re 5, 15, or 50 years old, it can be difficult to usher a stepparent in and out of the family unit. In today’s episode, the Sugars answer letters from stepchildren who have fraught relationships with their stepparents. What is a stepparent’s responsibility to a stepchild after divorce? And what can be done if you don’t like the person your parent chooses to marry? This episode was originally released on April 28th, 2018.

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0:20.0	W-B-U-R Podcast, Boston. The sugars are here, are here. The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:40.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:43.6	I'm Steve Aulman. I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:45.9	This is dear sugars.
0:49.6	Oh dear son, won't you please?
0:57.0	Share some better sweet days with me. be I check my bell drives every day.
1:09.0	Oh in the sugar.
1:10.0	In the sugar you see in my way.
1:20.0	Hi Cheryl.
1:21.0	Hi Steve.
1:22.0	Well, today we are going to talk about stepchildren,
1:25.0	and this is because for a long-time
1:27.0	listeners you know, we've talked about step-parents
1:30.0	in a couple of different episodes,
1:31.0	and each time our letter writers thank you
1:34.5	basically filled our inbox with questions about whether we're going to handle
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