Family Secrets, Part 1: Unspeakable Truths

Dear Sugars

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Every family has its secrets, but it's how those secrets are dealt with that determines the power they hold. In Part 1, the Sugars consider the implications of keeping a secret within a family system. They take a letter from a woman who, since her early teens, has kept a dark and powerful secret from her mother about her stepfather.

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0:00.0	Dear Sugar is supported by...
0:06.0	The Universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:10.0	Sugar is here.
0:12.0	The both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:16.0	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:18.0	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:22.0	Oh dear, don't you please.
0:27.0	Yeah, some better sweet days we'd be.
0:35.0	I check my bedbugs every day.
0:43.0	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:57.0	Hi Steve. Hi Cheryl.
0:59.0	So here we are today, we are going to talk about secrets.
1:03.0	In fact, we're going to do a two-part episode on secrets, particularly family secrets.
1:07.0	We get so many letters from people on one or another side of this divide.
1:13.0	I have a secret and I don't know what I should do with it.
1:17.0	Or I have had a secret kept from me that has now been revealed.
1:23.0	When you get such new information, it can be really actually life-changing.
1:26.0	In fact, we'll divide the episodes this week.
1:30.0	We'll be talking about family secrets having a secret.
1:34.0	Part two will be about the revelation of some dark knowledge within a family system.
1:40.0	One of the central products in the factory that a family is is the production of secrets.
1:48.0	As artists, we're always struggling with when do we and how do we break that silence.
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