Episodes We Love: The Stepchild's Dilemma
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 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 | Produced by the ILAB at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:07.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:19.0 | 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. |
| 0:29.0 | Oh dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:35.0 | Share some better sweet days with me. |
| 0:43.0 | I check my bedbub every day. |
| 0:51.0 | Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way. |
| 0:58.0 | Hi Cheryl. |
| 0:59.0 | Hi Steve. |
| 1:00.0 | Well today we are going to talk about step children. |
| 1:04.0 | And this is because for long time listeners you know we've talked about step parents and a couple of different episodes. |
| 1:10.0 | And each time our letter writers thank you basically filled our inbox with questions about whether we're going to handle the experience of being a step child. |
| 1:19.0 | Right, it's a fraught relationship. |
| 1:21.0 | And I think that it's one of those really rare times that we're forced to be very intimate with people sometimes that we don't even like. |
| 1:31.0 | We don't even know. |
| 1:32.0 | You know suddenly you look up and your mom or dad is married somebody else. |
| 1:36.0 | And that can be beautiful or it can be complicated. |
| 1:40.0 | One thing that does get I think overlooked when we talk about step parents and especially we've heard on our step mother's episode. |
| 1:46.0 | You know we've got the evil step mother in every fairy tale. |
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