From the Boston Globe, this is Love Letters.

I'm Meredith Goldstein.

I was always the person who decided to leave so I wasn't laid low with

unhappiness I just always picked myself up and and moved on I think kids have a really crazy idea that it's going to be a red-hot

romance for 45 years and it isn't like that. Like what's the longest

red-hot romance anybody can expect three okay okay that

answers the question about that marriage This is Margo Howard.

If you don't know her, she's an advice columnist herself.

She was Dear Prudence, then Dear Margo,

she's also the daughter of the most famous

advice giver of all time, my hero, and Landers.

Margot has been married four times,

so she knows a thing or two about breakups.

This is really wonderful in the Vice Columnist with four husband. So she knows a thing or two about breakups.

This is really wonderful and the Vice Columnist with four husbands.

But anyway, recently I had the chance to hang out with Margot in Sarasota, Florida.

As two advice columnist, hanging out in the sun, we had the chance to talk about a million things.

But one of the most important conversations I think we had when it came to breakups was about

mementos and relics.

All these important objects we collect during a relationship, and what happens

to them after the relationship ends.

Margot tells me that after one of her divorces, freedom was actually more important to her than any of the objects left in her possession.

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