Encore: The Other Half of Sexless Relationships

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Dear Sugars inbox was flooded with responses to the two-part episode “Sexless Relationships” with Esther Perel. In those episodes, the Sugars answered letters from people who were longing for sexual intimacy with their partners. But many readers asked why we didn’t address the other side of sexless relationships: the people who want less sex than their partners. This episode was originally released on October 28th, 2017.

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0:00.0	Produced by the I-Leb at WBUR Boston.
0:14.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:18.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:22.0	I'm Steve Alman.
0:23.0	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:24.0	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:28.0	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:35.0	Yeah, some little sweet days with me.
0:43.0	I check my bedbub every day.
0:50.0	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:58.0	Hi Steve.
0:59.0	Hi Cheryl.
1:00.0	So we're kind of doing one of my favorite kinds of episodes today.
1:05.0	And that is an episode that is in its own right about something.
1:09.0	But it's also in response to a previous episode we did.
1:12.0	Yes, it's the episodes I think of as the listeners are now all angry at us.
1:17.0	Well, not exactly, but maybe the listeners are saying, hey, I'm over here.
1:23.0	You talked about this issue and I'm grateful for that, but you missed one part of it.
1:27.0	And of course, we always miss one part of it.
1:29.0	We can't get everything in every episode.
1:32.0	So listeners might remember last season we did a two part series on sexless relationships
1:39.0	or at least relationships where there was a sense of the relationship being starved of sex.
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