May-December Romances

Dear Sugars

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Age is just a number in many contexts, but when it comes to finding long-lasting love, an age gap between partners can greatly impact the course of the relationship -- both in positive and challenging ways. The Sugars discuss those so-called "May-December" romances with the help of Lucinda Franks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the memoir "Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me," which tells the story of her marriage to New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who's 27 years her senior.

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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	Yeah, some little sweet days will be.
0:36.8	I check my bell by every day.
0:43.8	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:51.8	Hi Cheryl.
0:52.8	Hi Steve, how are you?
0:54.8	I'm doing great. I'm very excited about this episode.
0:57.8	I think this one's going to be a little controversial.
1:00.8	You think so?
1:01.8	Well, we're talking about age differences in relationships.
1:04.8	Indeed.
1:05.8	And I think people get very worked up about what constitutes something that needs to even be discussed in terms of an age difference.
1:14.8	Right, and people, of course, read into those age differences, all kinds of things, psychological things.
1:21.8	Like, do you have daddy issues if you are attracted to older men or in a relationship with an older man, or the reverse if you find yourself dating or marrying to somebody who's much younger?
1:32.8	I think it pushes a lot of buttons because people feel defensive about their own relationships or their own life choices.
1:38.8	Right, and I think the May-December relationship, that's the little dumb cultural tag we put on these.
1:44.8	It's an older man, powerful, successful, who's magnetic, and a younger woman who's taken under his wing.
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