Redux: Rapid Fire, Love & Money
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to love, money is supposed to be no object. But there’s no disentangling love from anything in our lives, and income is no exception. So how do you assess the role money should play in a relationship, and what happens when your desires and means change over time?
In this episode, five letter writers want to know how to discuss money with their romantic and familial partners. How do I stop resenting my husband for his low income? How do I ask my stay-at-home wife to get a job? Should I feel obligated to share the wealth with my fiscally irresponsible parents? The Sugars answer these questions and more in rapid-fire style on today’s episode.
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| 0:00.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:09.6 | The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Steve Alman. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm Cheryl Strayed. |
| 0:15.5 | This is Dear Sugars. |
| 0:19.3 | Oh, dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:26.6 | Share some little sweet days with me. |
| 0:32.6 | I check my bellby device every day. |
| 0:39.3 | Oh, and the sugar you see in my way. |
| 0:47.3 | Hi, Cheryl. |
| 0:50.3 | Hi, Steve. |
| 0:51.3 | Well, today we are going to do a rapid fire. |
| 0:54.9 | I love those. |
| 1:00.1 | Yes, I love them too, and they're about two of your favorite subjects, or at least I know one of these is your favorite subject. Oh, no, they're both by favorite subjects. |
| 1:01.9 | Love and money. |
| 1:03.8 | Yes. |
| 1:04.9 | And when I thought about this, I immediately went into my little lit nerd zone and thought, gee, our canon contains a whole |
| 1:14.2 | literature of economic and romantic anxiety, where those two are traveling together. |
| 1:19.8 | All of Jane Austen's novels are about finding a partner and the economic anxiety attendant with that. It's no coincidence that Darcy is |
| 1:31.2 | described as handsome and all the rest from pride and prejudice, but also he gets 10,000 pounds a |
| 1:35.7 | year. That is part of who Darcy is characterologically, and it is a big part of the math of that |
| 1:41.2 | book. The Great Gatsby is a book about love and money. |
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