Encore: The Stepchild's Dilemma

Dear Sugars

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Whether you’re 5, 15, or 50 years old, it can be difficult to usher a stepparent in and out of the family unit. In today’s episode, the Sugars answer letters from stepchildren who have fraught relationships with their stepparents. What is a stepparent’s responsibility to a stepchild after divorce? And what can be done if you don’t like the person your parent chooses to marry? This episode was originally released on April 28th, 2018.

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0:00.0	WBWR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things
0:06.1	that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to let
0:11.5	mysteries go unsolved.
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0:16.2	Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:25.2	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:29.6	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:33.2	I'm Steve Alman.
0:34.4	I'm Cheryl Strade.
0:35.4	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:37.4	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:45.6	Yeah, some little sweet days with me.
1:09.4	Hi Cheryl.
1:10.4	Hi Steve.
1:11.4	Well, today we are going to talk about step children, and this is because for long time
1:16.9	listeners you know we've talked about step parents in a couple of different episodes, and
1:21.2	each time our letter writers thank you basically filled our inbox with questions about whether
1:26.6	we're going to handle the experience of being a step child.
1:29.9	Right, it's a fraught relationship.
1:32.4	And I think that it's one of those really rare times that we're forced to be very intimate
1:39.0	with people sometimes that we don't even like, we don't even know, you know suddenly
1:44.0	you look up and your mom or dad is married somebody else.
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