S2E1: ‘He Doesn’t Look Odious’

Love Letters

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🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of the new season, Meredith Goldstein asks: Whatever happened to the good old-fashioned set-up? She talks to two friends with starkly different views on whether set-ups are worthwhile, and she visits a salon that offers far more than haircuts. Plus, Meredith introduces Erin, a 44-year-old single woman whose dating life Love Letters will be chronicling all season. Email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Something I hate about dating is you can hang out with a guy for five or six hours.
0:05.0	You can have dinner, he can go back to your place, and at the end of it, he can look at you and say,
0:12.0	hey, I'm actually not really looking the date right now and I'm kind of emotionally unavailable.
0:17.0	It was that final guy disappearing, closing the match.
0:23.6	It just makes you feel really unimportant.
0:27.3	All I know is that you have to be honest,
0:29.2	to clearly state your intentions with the person
0:32.4	and keep tabs, always check in.
0:34.7	I'm 71 with a boyfriend.
0:37.4	We met at a ballroom dance almost two years ago.
0:40.4	Before that I did a ton of online dating.
0:43.0	Oh God, is this what dating is going to be for the rest of my life?
0:45.0	Am I never going to have sparks again?
0:47.0	Am I never going to fall in love again?
0:50.0	So I was like, you know what, I'm going to not expend this energy anymore, feeling bad.
0:56.0	Okay, so dating in 2019, confusing, frustrating, sometimes completely exhilarating.
1:05.3	There can be that beautiful moment when it clicks,
1:07.9	when you think,
1:08.8	I have met someone, I am with someone. But how do you find them? How do you get there?
1:15.0	From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters. I'm Meredith Goldstein.
1:24.0	Welcome to season.
1:30.0	Welcome to season two of love letters.
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