Episodes We Love: Love In Doubt (Rapid Fire)

Dear Sugars

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

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🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

How many times have you heard this: "I love him, we're great together, but..."? There's always room for doubt, even in the happiest of relationships. So this week, the Sugars take on some of those doubts in rapid-fire fashion.

This episode was originally published on January 5th, 2017.

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0:00.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:09.3	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:14.4	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:15.9	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:19.4	Oh, dear song, won't you please?
0:26.6	Share some little sweet days with me.
0:34.6	I check my bellbytes every day.
0:42.3	Oh, and the sugar you see in my way.
0:48.3	Hi, Cheryl.
0:50.3	Hi, Steve. How are you?
0:51.3	I am doing good. I'm terrific.
0:54.9	We're going to deal another of our rapid fire episodes today.
0:59.0	And the theme, we're going to talk about love and doubt.
1:02.7	People who are quite clear about their feelings of affection or love or lust or compatibility.
1:07.8	Yeah.
1:08.2	But they have that one question that they're struggling to answer.
1:12.1	Mm-hmm.
1:12.6	It's like the love train has chugging along and gaining momentum,
1:16.7	and it just crashes into the giant boulder of doubt.
1:20.2	How's that for a terrible metaphor?
1:22.4	It's a pretty good one.
1:23.4	So the question is, can we help them get back on track?
	...

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