Episodes We Love: Should I Intervene?

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When we decide to meddle, it can often backfire. The Sugars, along with the writer Meghan Daum, answer letters from people who see loved ones heading down the wrong path, but worry intervention might be the wrong move. This episode was originally published on August 12th, 2017.

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0:00.0	Produced by the ILAB 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 Olman.
0:23.0	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:24.0	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:28.0	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:35.0	Share some better sweet days with me.
0:43.0	I check my bedbugs every day.
0:50.0	Oh, and this sugar, using my way.
0:59.0	Hi Cheryl.
0:59.0	We are going to talk about something that's almost everyone grapples with in some fashion
1:00.0	over the course of their lives and usually many times.
1:06.0	How and when and if to intervene.
1:09.0	You know, somebody you love or know is going down the wrong path or in a relationship
1:14.0	with somebody who may be dangerous or not doing what, you know, he or she should be doing.
1:19.0	Do you talk to them?
1:25.0	Do you say something?
1:26.0	Do you intervene?
1:27.0	Do you try to change the course of things?
1:28.0	I can say that I've intervened in small ways but I usually am pretty cautious about it.
1:30.0	But I have a father, you know, Dr. Rick.
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