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🗓️ 26 March 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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It’s never easy to talk to our romantic partners about their bodies, especially when it’s about weight. The Sugars, along with writer Ashley C. Ford, answer letters from people questioning their relationships because of major changes in their partners’ bodies.
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1:11.1 | straight into your ears. I'm Steve Alman. I'm Cheryl Stray. This is to your sugars. |
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1:50.0 | Hi Cheryl. Hi Steve. Today we are going to talk about body weight and romance. We were |
1:56.5 | getting tons of letters from letter writers who were like most of us in a state of confusion, |
2:02.8 | shame, anguish, conflict about their own bodies and how profoundly that impacts our effort |
2:09.7 | to love and be loved with partners who also have their own set of complex, fraught feelings |
2:14.2 | about their bodies. Yeah, and we're going to talk today about what |
2:17.2 | do you do when your partner has a body that causes you some trouble. You either feel concerned |
2:25.9 | from a health standpoint or turned off from sexual desire or physical attraction standpoint |
2:33.2 | when you feel bewildered about what to do, how to address this. It's such a complicated |
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