Sugar Babies Cost Me $8,000 And My Marriage

Death, Sex & Money

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Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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A listener talks about why he thought hiring sex workers could save his marriage⁠—while also knowing it could destroy it. We're looking for your stories about climate change, and about what happens when you take a minute to slow down and force yourself to focus on it. What do you think about? How do you feel? And then, what happens next? Send a voice memo to [email protected]. Sign up for our newsletter by going to deathsexmoney.org/newsletter, and every Wednesday we'll send you behind-the-scenes updates, podcast listening recommendations, and some pretty incredible listener letters from our inbox. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected].

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0:00.0	If I could do it all over again, I think that I would try and have the conversation before doing anything to say like this is, you know, I'm really wanting to cheat and we need to talk about this and we need to to manage this
0:20.0	This is death sex sex and money.
0:23.0	I want to pay you $10,000 to kill me.
0:25.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:29.0	How's the sex?
0:30.0	How is the sex?
0:31.0	How is the sex? And need to talk about more.
0:33.4	Cash, no problem.
0:36.2	I'm Anna Sale.
0:40.4	We got an email in our inbox a few months ago. The subject line was
0:44.6	Sugar Babies cost me $8,000 and my marriage.
0:48.6	It's really embarrassing, I think. It's not, it's not socially acceptable.
0:55.0	This is Ethan. That's not his real name.
0:58.0	He sent us that email about how he used the website seeking arrangement to hire so-called sugar babies, younger
1:05.3	attractive women to go on dates with him and have sex with him all while he was
1:09.4	married. When he wrote us he'd already confessed to his wife, his marriage was ending.
1:15.0	And Ethan said, he couldn't really talk about it with anyone in his life.
1:19.0	I've lost most of our mutual friends and I think that so few people know the whole
1:30.3	truth you know know everything I've told people certain people that I've cheated,
1:36.8	but nobody about with a sugar baby.
1:42.3	Are you trying to like explain yourself?
1:44.0	Um, yeah, a little bit.
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