Bonus Episode: Finding Love in the Comments

Love Letters

The Boston Globe

Love Tips, Breakups, Dating, Relationship Tips, Love, Dating And Relationships, Love Advice, Advice, Dating Tips, Marriage Advice, Breakup Advice, Relationship Advice, The Boston Globe, Boston, Society & Culture, Love Letters, Meredith Goldstein, Dating Advice, Letters, Relationships, Boston Globe

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Meredith Goldstein talks to two people who met their partners in online communities — including one who found love in the comments section of Meredith’s column. Email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Meredith.
0:02.0	Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously,
0:06.0	which is why I want to tell you about season 3 of the podcast Turning Points,
0:10.0	Navigating Mental Health.
0:11.0	Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of navigating mental health. Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of
0:14.2	navigating mental health and the turning points that can spark lifelong changes.
0:18.3	Host Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, doula's, writers and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between.
0:29.0	Turning Points, a podcast from Point 32 Health in partnership with Boston Globe Media.
0:34.3	Find turning points wherever you get your podcasts.
0:37.1	Hey everybody, it's Meredith with a season two bonus episode.
0:40.8	As we recorded the second season of Love Letters, which was all about
0:44.0	how to meet people, I thought a lot about my column. Because here's the weird
0:48.2	thing. The Boston Globe has two love-themed columns. One is my advice column, Love Letters.
0:54.9	The other is called Dinner with Cupid,
0:57.8	which is basically a Boston-based matchmaking column
1:00.9	where the Globe magazine sends two random strangers on a date to see what happens.
1:06.1	The weird thing is that Dinner with Cupid, which has also been running for a decade, has resulted
1:10.4	in literally no known marriages. Most of those first dates don't result in a second
1:15.8	outing. But my column has resulted in two marriages. Random anonymous commenters who liked each other's advice in the comment
1:24.4	section have actually hooked up in real life. They met up at Love Letters
1:28.2	Parties I host in the Boston area throughout the year and then they fell in love.
1:36.2	How do you find love in a comment section? How do you find it in a community that's actually meant to live online? I mean online is where a lot of us
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