Hi, it's Meredith.

Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously,

which is why I want to tell you about season 3 of the podcast Turning Points,

Navigating Mental Health.

Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of navigating mental health. Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of

navigating mental health and the turning points that can spark lifelong changes.

Host Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, doula's, writers and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between.

Turning Points, a podcast from Point 32 Health in partnership with Boston Globe media.

Find turning points wherever you get your podcasts.

From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters.

I'm Meredith Goldstein. So, Hey there, so it's been a minute since our season ended, but we're back today with a special bonus episode, and we've got something a little different today.

One of the questions I get a lot in the Love Letters column is this,

how do you know if you should get married? This is a tough question for me to answer sometimes

because I've never really wanted to get married.

And sometimes I find myself saying,

I will never get married, as if it's a rule.

I wanted to talk to someone who felt the way I do about this and figure out why.

Gia Tolantino is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of the book,

Trick Mirror, Reflections on Self-Dilusion. We talked about why she doesn't want to get married,

something she writes about in the final essay of her book.

This season on the Love Letters Podcast,

we're tackling one big question, which is, how do you know?

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