Dear Sugars Presents: How To! With Charles Duhigg
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode of Dear Sugars, Cheryl Strayed is a featured guest on the Slate podcast How To! with Charles Duhigg. We hear from Megan who is 35 years old, a lawyer, happily married — and suddenly not sure if she wants to be a mom. She always figured one day the maternal urge would kick in, but so far she’s only felt ambivalence. Does that mean that she shouldn’t have a baby? Cheryl tells us how she juggled this question when there is no going back, and how regret — regardless of what we choose — is always part of the equation.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the iLap at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey dear sugar sphands, I'm Charles DuHig, the host of a podcast named How To. |
| 0:14.0 | And we have a special treat for you. |
| 0:16.0 | Cheryl Strayed was recently on an episode of How To. |
| 0:19.0 | Cheryl talks with a woman who is trying to figure out how to decide whether she should have a baby or not. |
| 0:25.0 | We'd love to encourage you to keep listening to find out how Cheryl helped her. |
| 0:28.0 | And if you enjoy this episode of How To, go to slate.com slash How To. |
| 0:34.0 | Or subscribe to the show in Apple podcasts or wherever you listen. |
| 0:39.0 | I think what we're both struggling with here, honestly, is that we don't really have language for actually telling the truth. |
| 0:48.0 | To have clarity and certainty about becoming a parent, I think most people don't frankly. |
| 0:54.0 | Right. |
| 0:55.0 | And even me saying that out loud to you right now, I'm like, but I love them. |
| 0:59.0 | I love that you're wonderful. |
| 1:01.0 | You're everything to me. |
| 1:06.0 | Welcome to How To. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Charles DuHig. |
| 1:09.0 | Each week we talk to listeners who are trying to figure out how to solve one of life's problems. |
| 1:14.0 | And then we do some research and we track down an expert and we get their advice. |
| 1:18.0 | And usually the way that we learn about a problem is that they send us an email at HowToItSlate.com. |
| 1:24.0 | And in fact, that's how we heard from this week's listener who had emailed us actually from halfway across the world. |
| 1:30.0 | What is it? Is it crazy early in the morning in Australia right now? |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah, I'm in at the office at 7.30, which is, you know, good early. |
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