Looking For The One, Part 1: The Anxiety
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The Sugars have been avoiding the most frequently asked question they receive: Will I ever find the one? In this first episode on the theme, the Sugars explore the anxieties of the women who write in — I'm happy, I'm successful, everything else in my life is going great. But I can't find a partner. What's wrong with me? Will I ever find someone? Is it too late? Lena Dunham joins the conversation with her trademark candor.
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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... |
| 0:28.8 | She has some little sweet days with me. |
| 0:36.8 | I check my bell vibes every day. |
| 0:43.8 | Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way. |
| 0:51.8 | Hey Cheryl. |
| 0:52.8 | Hi Steve. Welcome to part one of a two part episode we're doing on the subject of the one. |
| 1:00.8 | Looking for the one, finding that romantic partner. |
| 1:04.8 | We've, as you know, found that we have dozens and dozens and dozens of emails from listeners who are women. |
| 1:10.8 | Most of them between the ages of, you know, early 20s to early 50s and they're asking us, |
| 1:18.8 | will I ever find love? Why haven't I found love? |
| 1:21.8 | How do I find love? What's wrong with me if I can't find love? |
| 1:25.8 | People ask, I'm sure they ask you, they ask me all the time. |
| 1:28.8 | What is the most common thing that people are struggling with that you hear about this is it? |
| 1:33.8 | And this is why we wanted to do two episodes because there are really two things that we wanted to examine. |
| 1:40.8 | The first has to do with the anxieties around this feeling. |
| 1:45.8 | Part two, I feel that both of us felt like we wanted to address the reality, not the feelings we have around it, |
| 1:51.8 | but what is the actual situation on the ground for women who are trying to find the one, be they, you know, 21 or 59? |
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