Body Weight And Romance — With Ashley C. Ford

Dear Sugars

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It’s never easy to talk to our romantic partners about their bodies, especially when it’s about weight. The Sugars, along with the writer Ashley C. Ford, answer letters from people questioning their relationships because of major changes in their partners’ bodies.

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0:00.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:09.6	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:13.2	I'm Steve Alman.
0:14.4	I'm Cheryl Stray.
0:15.4	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:17.4	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:26.4	She has some little sweet days we've been.
0:33.4	I check my bell by every day.
0:41.4	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:49.4	Hi Cheryl.
0:50.4	Hi Steve.
0:52.4	Today we are going to talk about body weight and romance.
0:56.4	We were getting tons of letters from letter writers who were like most of us in a state of confusion, shame, anguish, conflict about their own bodies and how profoundly that impacts our effort to love and be loved with partners who also have their own set of complex, fraught feelings about their bodies.
1:15.4	Yeah, and we're going to talk today about what do you do when your partner has a body that causes you some trouble?
1:23.4	You either feel concerned from a health standpoint or turned off from sexual desire or physical attraction standpoint when you feel bewildered about what to do, how to address this.
1:37.4	It's such a complicated thing.
1:39.4	Okay, let me get started with the first letter.
1:42.4	Dear sugars.
1:43.4	My partner's weight has fluctuated throughout her life.
1:46.4	She's a confident and strong woman who doesn't let appearance define who she is or what she does.
1:51.4	Nonetheless, I know it's a sensitive subject to her.
1:54.4	Since we met, she has gained considerable weight.
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