Letter From An Aching Single Father

Dear Sugars

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars take a question from a single father who's just dropped his oldest son off at college. He is seized by feelings of guilt — that his attention was often elsewhere, that he didn't do enough to prepare his sons for the world. They are joined by the writer Brad Watson, himself divorced with two sons.

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0:00.0	Dear Sugar is supported by...
0:07.2	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:11.6	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:17.0	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:18.5	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:21.9	Oh dear, don't you please...
0:27.8	She has some little sweet days with me.
0:34.8	I check my bell vibes every day.
0:43.8	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:51.8	Hi Cheryl.
0:52.8	Hi Steve.
0:53.8	The question we're going to take on this week is fascinating to me because you and I are parents.
0:59.8	And I'm the parent of a nine-year-old, just turned nine-year-old, six-year-old and a two-year-old.
1:05.8	Your kids are ten and twelve.
1:08.8	My daughter is just turning ten and my son is eleven.
1:11.8	And we're so focused in on the daily struggle, right?
1:14.8	That whole idea of long day short years.
1:17.8	We're very focused in on the minutia of what our kids are doing in this moment and that moment.
1:21.8	And there's very little of the sitting back and reflecting in a large scale way on how did we do as parents?
1:29.8	Did we equip our kids to move into the world as independent happy adults?
1:34.8	I don't think at that level.
1:35.8	I do sometimes talk with parents who have older kids because I'm always trying to figure out what really matters.
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