From NPR's Dear Life Kit: Can You Be Too Generous?

Love Letters

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A special visit from our friends at NPR’s Dear Life Kit podcast, where experts answer your most pressing and personal anonymous questions. In this bonus episode: A letter writer loves her boyfriend's parents, but their generosity feels inappropriate. Maya Lau, host of the podcast Other People's Pockets, weighs in on how to move forward. Email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Meredith, and I am here with Andy Tagle, host of NPR's Dear Life Kit podcast.
0:11.0	Hey there, Andy.
0:12.0	Hey Meredith.
0:13.0	It's so good to see you again.
0:14.5	We worked together a few years ago on a great episode about how to give advice and you guys
0:21.0	are so good at just helping people figure out how to do everything.
0:26.0	Meredith, it was a joy and a pleasure.
0:28.0	It was a very meta episode we worked on.
0:30.0	It was an episode about how to give advice for our advice podcast.
0:33.0	Yes.
0:34.0	And I loved it.
0:35.0	I even returned to it all the time.
0:36.0	One thing I think about as a podcast host and advice columnist who deals with advice is
0:41.0	how narrow my focus is.
0:43.0	I am all interested in relationships and romance and your team focuses on everything.
0:50.0	Can you kind of give me a sense of the range of problems you've solved and guides you've
0:55.0	given to people because I am always shocked when the new episode comes up and it's something
0:59.0	I didn't even know I needed help with, but I do.
1:02.0	Thank you, Meredith.
1:04.0	That's really kind.
1:05.0	Yeah.
1:06.0	I mean, life kit covers everything from parenting to friendship to finances.
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