Dear Sugar: Do I Follow My Head Or My Heart?

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars get a letter from a young woman who has fallen head over heels in love. She and her boyfriend only met a month ago, but they are already in deep. Everything seems perfect, and yet the letter writer can't help but wonder if the traumas of her new love's past are hiding somewhere under the surface, threatening to resurface. The Sugars do something new — and get the letter writer on the phone to speak with her directly about her fears.

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0:00.0	Dear Sugar is supported by...
0:07.2	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:11.6	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:17.0	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:18.5	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:21.9	Oh dear, don't you please...
0:28.9	She has some little sweet days with me.
0:36.9	I check my bell by every day.
0:43.9	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:51.9	Dear sugars, I'm a 34 year old woman who has never been married,
0:55.9	because I have had a long term relationships.
0:58.4	All of my relationships have been safe, meaning the men were pretty conventional, stable,
1:03.0	and came from good backgrounds.
1:05.2	I also come from a very good background.
1:07.6	I had an idyllic childhood with almost no big trauma to speak of.
1:11.6	My parents are still married, and I see them often.
1:14.5	Recently, I unexpectedly met the most amazing man whom I immediately fell for.
1:20.0	We share an incredibly deep, heart and soul connection.
1:22.7	He were immediately head over heels in love, trusted each other, and both feel as though
1:26.9	we've known each other forever.
1:29.0	But there's one thing, sugars.
1:30.8	He comes from a background full of trauma.
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