Dear Sugar: I'm Sleeping With Younger Men
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2015
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Sugars take a question from a woman in her forties who lives a second life. She is known as a professional, PTA-going mom — but she's secretly sleeping with significantly younger men. She's beginning to question whether her behavior is healthy. Meanwhile, her "real" life is in a state of crisis.
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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. |
| 0:24.1 | Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. UK slash voter ID. |
| 0:29.2 | Dear Sugar is supported by |
| 0:41.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heart sick. |
| 0:46.2 | Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your 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 | Okay, Steve, this is a really long letter, but it's fascinating, so we're just going to get through it. |
| 1:27.0 | Dear Sugar's, I'm a 44-year-old single mother in a college town. My ex-husband and I have joint custody of two |
| 1:34.3 | teenagers and I have a grown daughter who lives in another state. I lived a pretty |
| 1:38.9 | wild and crazy life in my teens in early 20s, following the grateful debt around, taking acid and smoking lots of pot. |
| 1:46.2 | But then I sobered up, went to grad school, and met the man who became my husband. |
| 1:51.2 | For years I lived the married life devoted to my family. |
| 1:54.0 | My husband and I grew apart and we divorced 10 years ago. |
| 1:57.0 | In the years right after my divorce, I didn't have success with intimate relationships with men. |
| 2:02.0 | I pined for men who were unavailable, |
| 2:05.3 | emotionally, physically, or both, and I wasted away the years between 34 and 40 on men who couldn't |
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