Hey, Love Tribe. This week I'm bringing you something special. It's an episode of one of my

favorite podcasts, Love Letters. Love Letters tell stories about romance, marriage, partnership,

sex, loss, and the human heart. On the new season, host Meredith Goldstein explores all the ways

money plays into love, dating, and relationships. Like what happens when two partners come from

different wealth backgrounds, what if someone is harboring secret debt? Who should pay for drinks

on the first date? How do couples decide whose turn it is to pursue their career dream? Here's

episode one of the new season of Love Letters. Find the show wherever you listen to your podcasts.

One night in January of 2020, Alex, a young professional who lives in Massachusetts,

musters up the courage to confront a marital problem, a marital mystery, you might say.

Alex turns to Tim, the husband in this story, and asks him, what the hell is going on?

I finally said, if I didn't know you better, I would think you had a drug problem. I don't understand

where your money goes. And he left the room, and he came back in like five or ten minutes later,

looking kind of white as a ghost, face fallen, and I was like, oh no, what has happened here?

What had happened? Well, it's a long story. A story about love, money, trust, and whether a

relationship, even a strong one, can survive a certain kind of infidelity. He kind of did the like,

I have to tell you something, and I didn't know what he was going to say at that point.

From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters. I'm Meredith Goldstein.

Welcome to season eight of Love Letters, which is all about money and how it relates to love and

relationships. I need to say right off the bat that this topic is close to my heart and my soul.

Or should I say close to my neuroses. As I told my financial advisor in the previous episode,

money really freaks me out. Both how it plays into romantic relationships and how it affects

single people, seeking a partner. Money was a big source of stress in my household growing up,

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