Encore: Emotional Abuse

Dear Sugars

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Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Reema Zaman, our guest in this week’s episode, was in an emotionally abusive marriage. Although her husband’s abuses never left any physical mark, it took her years to repair the damage he inflicted upon her. Ms. Zaman describes some of the telltale signs of an emotionally abusive relationship and helps the Sugars answer two painful letters from women who are struggling to disentangle themselves from their abusive partners. This episode was originally aired on August 4th, 2018.

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0:00.0	WVR Podcasts, Boston.
0:07.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:17.6	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:21.2	I'm Steve Almond.
0:22.4	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:23.4	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:26.4	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:33.4	Yeah, some little sweet days will be.
0:41.4	I check my bedbugs every day.
0:49.4	Oh, and this sugar, you see it my way.
0:57.4	Hi Steve.
0:58.4	Hi Cheryl.
0:59.4	So I have a story for you.
1:01.3	I was 27 years old.
1:02.9	I had just moved to Portland, Oregon.
1:04.8	I had just finished hiking on the Pacific Coast Trail and came here to make my life a
1:10.4	nail.
1:11.4	And I was staying for a while with a woman who was really, really one of my dearest
1:17.9	dear friends.
1:18.9	And I had her less than a year after my mom died and she was a few years older.
1:24.2	So almost immediately we became not only really close, but there was this dynamic where I
1:30.2	was essentially enamored of her.
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