Redux: Sexual Fluidity

Dear Sugars

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

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

"Whatever" -- that's how the actress Maria Bello describes her sexual orientation. Her "love who you love" attitude toward sexuality, regardless of gender, is often referred to as fluidity. Maria joins the Sugars this week to discuss a couple of letters having to do with the confusion and complications that can accompany a shift in one's sexual preferences and partnerships. This episode was originally published on March 3rd, 2017.

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0:00.0	Produced by the ILAB at WBUR Boston.
0:07.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:17.0	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:22.0	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:24.0	I'm Steve Almond.
0:25.0	This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:27.0	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:34.0	Share some little sweet days with me.
0:42.0	I check my bell by every day.
0:50.0	Oh and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:57.0	Hi Steve.
0:58.0	Hi Cheryl.
0:59.0	So I have a story for you.
1:01.0	Yummy, yummy.
1:02.0	When I was 24, I was married to my first husband.
1:06.0	So it was like 10 years ago, gotcha.
1:08.0	That's right.
1:09.0	And I struggled a lot in that marriage because even though I loved my ex-husband,
1:14.0	I always felt like I, you know, I got married too young.
1:17.0	I wasn't able to, I didn't want to be in a monogamy or a commitment.
1:22.0	And I was often, you know, kind of crushing on other guys and flirting with other men and so forth.
1:28.0	And at one point I went off to a writer's colony and I, uh oh.
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