Cut Loose: Your Stories of Breaking Up
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Podcasts
4.6 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We asked for your stories about breakups. You told us about being left, doing the leaving, and the times when you're not exactly sure what happened.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Anna. |
| 0:02.0 | All throughout this spring, you have been sending us your stories about |
| 0:05.6 | a strangement. |
| 0:07.0 | Many of you have had a story to share. |
| 0:09.7 | If you've listened to us for a long time, you know this is the kind of thing we do. |
| 0:13.4 | We ask our listeners to share their stories about big, sweeping themes, and then you do. |
| 0:19.6 | And then we get to put together beautiful collages of very specific stories about things |
| 0:24.9 | that can be tough to talk about in our personal lives. |
| 0:28.5 | We are still collecting your stories about a strangement. |
| 0:31.4 | Please share an email or a voice memo with us about what you've gone through or are |
| 0:35.8 | going through. |
| 0:36.8 | It can be about the experience of separating from a particular relationship or even a community. |
| 0:43.0 | Send those stories to us at deathsexmoneyatwnyc.org. |
| 0:48.9 | One thing that has come up as the team has talked about a strangement is whether breakups |
| 0:53.4 | count. |
| 0:54.4 | Like a strangement with breakups, there's a stark change, something that was so close |
| 0:59.2 | an intimate becomes shut off, past tense. |
| 1:03.9 | But what's different is a strangement can feel like an extraordinary step, somewhat |
| 1:09.0 | unusual. |
| 1:10.3 | While breakups, they can feel so mundane and everyday that it can compound the pain, |
| 1:16.8 | like you are deeply hurting, and also you feel like a cliche. |
| 1:21.6 | We made an episode all about breakups back in 2017, and it's still among my very favorite |
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