S2E5: A Spark in the Darkness

Love Letters

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Trust. Intimacy. Affection. They’re all key ingredients to a healthy romantic relationship. But what happens when pain, trauma, and memory get in the way? In Episode Five, Meredith Goldstein explores the unique challenges of trying to find love and connection after a difficult past. Also, Erin has a promising date and Meredith starts swiping for the first time in her life. Email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Trust, intimacy, affection. These are some of the key ingredients to a healthy romantic relationship.
0:08.0	If you're dating, you hope to find these things in a partner, and you want to be able to provide those things in return.
0:15.6	But what happens when it's not that simple?
0:18.0	What happens when pain in memory and trauma get in the way?
0:21.8	From the way.
0:26.7	From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters.
0:28.5	I'm Meredith Goldstein. We're going to do something a little different on today's
0:34.0	one.
0:39.0	We're going to do something a little different on today's episode.
0:42.0	We're going to spend some time on a story that
0:43.5	illuminates one particular challenge of trying to meet someone. It's the
0:47.4	challenge of trying to find a partner when something traumatic has been
0:50.9	done to you in your past. I should note before we get into it
0:54.1	that this episode contained sensitive material about sexual abuse that might be
0:58.2	upsetting to some listeners. Let's start at the beginning. Hello Michael.
1:03.0	Hi, Meredith.
1:05.0	Michael grew up in a town just south of Boston.
1:08.0	He was raised Catholic.
1:10.0	Into his late teens, he says, the church was everything to him. I had lots of
1:14.6	relationships with priests and monks and nuns and those relationships were
1:19.6	very dear to me. I was actually starting to think about becoming a priest at that point.
1:26.0	At 17, Michael develops a friendship with a priest named Robert Gale.
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