More Money, More Problems

Dear Sugars

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Money makes us crazy. In this episode, the Sugars take questions from two letter writers struggling with their relationships to money. The first, an aspiring playwright, feels guilty about all the advantages that her parents' wealth has provided to her. The second, a divorced mother, is unable to control her spending and is on the verge of bankruptcy. They're joined by the writer Sean Wilsey, who wrote about his own complicated relationship to family wealth in the acclaimed memoir, "Oh the Glory of it All."

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0:00.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:10.0	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:15.0	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:16.0	I'm Steve Almond.
0:18.0	This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:20.0	Oh dear, son, won't you please?
0:27.0	Yes, I'm little sweet days with me.
0:34.0	I check my bell vibes every day.
0:42.0	Oh, and this sugar, using my way.
0:49.0	Hello, Steve.
0:50.0	Hello, Cheryl, so we are back.
0:52.0	Today, we're going to be talking about money, money, money, money, which I'm so interested to hear your insights about.
0:59.0	And we have a couple of fascinating letters and a wonderful guest.
1:03.0	But I think about money a lot.
1:05.0	Money is just makes people crazy.
1:08.0	And in their personal lives, their relationship with money is so twisted and pathological.
1:15.0	And that's certainly true in my life.
1:17.0	I'm going to drop a little Freud on you.
1:19.0	I'm just going to do it.
1:20.0	I come by naturally as I want to do.
1:23.0	It is impossible, Sigmund says, to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement.
1:30.0	That they seek power, success, and wealth for themselves and admire them in others.
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