Powerful Women And The Men Who Love Them

Dear Sugars

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

"How's your husband doing?" That was one of the questions Cheryl kept getting after the publication of her memoir, "Wild." What people meant was: How's he handling your success? In this encore episode, the Sugars take two questions on the dynamics of gender, power, and love — a young man struggles with jealousy when his girlfriend gets a career opportunity he wants for himself, and a woman finds she's no longer attracted to her husband now that he's not the breadwinner. Joining them to discuss the subject is Cheryl's husband, …

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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.
0:42.9	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:51.9	Hi Steve.
0:52.9	Hi Cheryl.
0:53.9	Welcome to the Female Power episode.
0:55.9	I'm so excited about this.
0:56.9	Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
0:58.9	As somebody who's married to a powerful female and was raised by one.
1:02.9	Yes.
1:03.9	Here we are.
1:04.9	And the letters we're going to consider today, on one hand, they express a sort of reality that, you know,
1:11.9	I'm not in either of the situations that we're going to discuss today.
1:14.9	And yet the issues around them are things that have come up over and over in my life as a girl in this culture that is really uncomfortable with ambitious girls.
1:25.9	And as a woman in this culture that's really ambivalent about successful and strong women.
1:32.9	And never has this come up, I guess, more acutely than over these last few years since wild, you know, did go and become a bestseller.
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