Looking For The One, Part 2: The Reality

Dear Sugars

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars have been avoiding the most frequently asked question they receive from women: Will I ever find the one? In the first episode, they explored the anxieties around that question. In Part 2, they focus on a particular anxiety that comes up over and over in letters from advice-seekers who have begun to question their past and present relationship decisions — should I settle?

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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...
0:27.9	Yeah, some little sweet days would be.
0:34.9	I check my bell by every day.
0:43.9	Oh, and this sugar, using my way.
0:51.9	Hey Cheryl.
0:52.9	Hi Steve.
0:53.9	So here we are week two of our one is the loneliest number episode we're doing.
0:58.9	As you know, we spoke last week about this anxiety that so many young women have.
1:03.9	We get all of these letters, will I ever find the one.
1:06.9	And this week we're talking about the reality.
1:10.9	Many times anxieties are rooted in nothing and not rooted in fact.
1:14.9	But sometimes they are rooted in fact.
1:16.9	And I think that this has become a real question for a lot of women who are saying to us,
1:22.9	you know, maybe it is too hard.
1:24.9	They're looking around and seeing, especially women who are approaching 40 or in the neighborhood of that age, saying,
1:30.9	it looks to me like all of the men I know in my situation are finding women to partner with.
1:36.9	And I'm not.
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