Dear Sugar: I'm Bad At Breaking Up
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2015
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this short episode, the Sugars take a question from a young man whose ex-girlfriends have felt blindsided when he ended the relationships. He is questioning his intuition - having ended the relationships because he felt there wasn't a future with these women, but wondering if he just wasn't articulating his needs to them.
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| 0:00.0 | Must remember, do not forget. |
| 0:07.0 | Remind me to bring photo ID. |
| 0:11.0 | Reminder, set. Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, love. |
| 0:19.0 | However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May. |
| 0:24.0 | Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. |
| 0:26.8 | UK slash voter ID. |
| 0:30.0 | Dear Sugar is supported by |
| 0:41.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your |
| 0:46.2 | ears. I'm Cheryl Strade. I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio. |
| 0:51.6 | Oh dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:59.0 | Share some little sweet days with me. |
| 1:05.0 | I check my bell-bives every day. Oh, in the sugar, you see in my way. |
| 1:21.0 | Dear Sugar, I'm a 30-year-old male dealing with confusion about romantic relationships in my life. |
| 1:28.0 | Throughout my teens and early 20s, I was flying solo, no real relationships to speak of, I was very lonely. This was mostly due to my |
| 1:35.4 | lack of confidence and self-worth. Through therapy, traveling, and generally becoming |
| 1:39.8 | comfortable with myself, I've grown immensely. In the past few years I've had two great |
| 1:45.8 | relationships with two attractive and interesting women, both of which I decided to end |
| 1:49.9 | based on deep-seated feelings I had that a long-term future with them would be unhappy. |
| 1:55.8 | You talk a lot about intuition and trusting your gut in romantic relationships. |
| 2:00.7 | What I am struggling with is the fine line between trusting my gut and clearly communicating with my partner what I want and need out of a relationship in order to improve it. |
| 2:09.0 | When I ended these relationships, both breakups felt like I blindsided them. I was accused of terrible |
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