Episodes We Love: Emotional Abuse
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 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 released on August 4th, 2018.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, this is Steve, just a quick word of warning that we'll be discussing intimate partner |
| 0:13.2 | violence on this episode. |
| 0:21.1 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:25.5 | The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Steve Almond. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm Cheryl Strayed. |
| 0:31.2 | This is Dear Sugar's. |
| 0:35.2 | Oh dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:42.4 | She has some little sweet days we've been. |
| 0:50.0 | I check my bell by every day. |
| 0:57.6 | Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way. |
| 1:04.6 | Hi Steve. |
| 1:05.6 | Hi Cheryl. |
| 1:06.6 | So I have a story for you. |
| 1:09.0 | I was 27 years old. |
| 1:10.6 | I had just moved to Portland, Oregon. |
| 1:12.4 | I had just finished hiking on the Pacific wrist trail and came here to make my life a |
| 1:18.1 | nail. |
| 1:19.1 | I was staying for a while with a woman who was really, really one of my dearest, dearest |
| 1:26.0 | friends. |
| 1:27.0 | I was a little older, less than a year after my mom died and she was a few years older. |
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