Encore: Rapid Fire: Love & Money

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to love, money is supposed to be no object. But there’s no disentangling love from anything in our lives, and income is no exception. So how do you assess the role money should play in a relationship, and what happens when your desires and means change over time? The Sugars take on 5 letters in this rapid-fire episode.

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1:05.1	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. The sugars are here,
1:11.2	speaking straight into your ears. I'm Steve Alman. I'm Cheryl Strayed. This is Dear
1:16.8	Sugar's.
1:46.8	Hi, Cheryl. Hi, Steve. Well, today we are going to do a rapid fire.
1:54.4	I love those. Yes. I love them too. And they're about two of your favorite subjects. Or at
1:58.4	least I know one of these is your favorite subjects. Oh, no, they're both my favorite
2:01.5	subjects. Love and money. Yes. And when I thought about this, I immediately went into
2:08.5	my little lit nerred zone and thought, gee, our canon contains a whole literature of
2:15.5	economic and romantic anxiety where those two are traveling together. All of Jane Austin's
2:21.1	novels are about finding a partner and the economic anxiety attendant with that. It's
2:29.5	no coincidence that Darcy is described as handsome and all the rest from Pride and Prejudice,
2:34.0	but also he gets 10,000 pounds a year. That is part of who Darcy is characterologically
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