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Death, Sex & Money

Real Love: A Valentine's Special from Death, Sex & Money

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes love fits neatly on a card. Sometimes, it spills over into rehab, divorce, or a call from a former Wyoming senator.  Support Death, Sex & Money by becoming a monthly sustaining member. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is real love a Valentine's Special from death, sex and money.

0:09.0

And she inexplicably mails me a cactus every Valentine's Day.

0:12.0

The show from WNYC about the things we think allegedly mails me a cactus every Valentine's Day.

0:12.8

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot,

0:15.8

It doesn't matter whose fault the breakup was, okay?

0:18.6

I need to talk about more.

0:20.3

I'm Anna Sale and on this Valentine's Day we're going to get real.

0:27.0

I like having love in my life. I don't seem to have been so successful at it, having had three

0:36.4

husbands. Since I started this show I've talked with lots of people, some famous, some not, about their lives.

0:46.1

Love always seems to find a way into the conversation.

0:49.8

Being with her is the greatest joy of my life. I was incredibly heartbroken at the time. I get jealous

0:55.9

but I don't tell her that. So this Valentine's Day, let's celebrate with some real love stories.

1:01.8

The kind of love, like Mary Jay famously said,

1:05.0

that's worth searching for and working for.

1:08.0

I went to a couple's therapist.

1:10.0

I realized part of the problem was mine.

1:13.7

In the next hour you'll hear from Jane Fonda,

1:16.0

who told me she gave up on marriage.

1:18.3

I went seven years sell of it, and I thought that was it.

1:22.2

Now in her 70s, she lives with her boyfriend, but still says marriage is not for her.

1:27.0

Later on, sex columnist Dan Savage talks about what he and his husband argue about most, the answer might surprise you.

1:36.3

Country Musicians, Jason Isbel and Amanda Shires, talk about falling in love and confronting

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