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This is Love

Desperate In Rockland

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Meredith Goldstein started giving her mother dating advice when she was a teenager, and today she offers people advice as the author of the Love Letters column for The Boston Globe. She says: “My favorite letters are breakup letters because it doesn't matter who you are – if you have been dumped, it is awful." Meredith Goldstein’s podcast is Love Letters.  Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment,

0:26.4

and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:32.1

Do you remember the first letter you answered?

0:35.0

I think it was called Desperate in Rockland and it was about a 16 year relationship.

0:41.0

Basically it was sort of like there were limitations to this

0:43.7

relationship and after 16 years it still wasn't really good. The main thing I

0:48.2

remember about the first letter is that there were all these like very

0:50.8

normal things, you you know relationship problems

0:53.1

communication problems and then this line he won't even show me his feet.

0:59.4

Meredith Goldstein is the advice columnist at the Boston Globe.

1:04.0

She's been answering letters from readers for more than a decade.

1:07.6

And that was the first lesson of, you think you know a problem and you think you know all the

1:11.4

details because one letter is like another but no no no

1:13.7

then somebody says this man won't show me his feet and I just remember really zeroing in on that

1:20.1

line and thinking could I be with someone who was afraid to show me their feet and

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