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Love Letters

S3E6: Friends (Without) Benefits

Love Letters

The Boston Globe

Love Tips, Breakups, Dating, Relationship Tips, Love, Dating And Relationships, Love Advice, Advice, Dating Tips, Marriage Advice, Breakup Advice, Relationship Advice, The Boston Globe, Boston, Society & Culture, Love Letters, Meredith Goldstein, Dating Advice, Letters, Relationships, Boston Globe

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes friendship is just friendship, and sometimes it’s meant to be more. But how do you know? Aubrey spent years trying to figure that out with a guy she calls The Singer. Could she learn to be comfortable with ambiguity? … Have a story of your own? Email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Meredith.

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Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously,

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which is why I want to tell you about season 3 of the podcast Turning Points,

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Navigating Mental Health.

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Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of navigating mental health. Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of

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navigating mental health and the turning points that can spark lifelong changes.

0:18.3

Host Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, doula's, writers and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between.

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Turning Points, a podcast from Point 32 Health in partnership with Boston Globe Media.

0:34.0

Find turning points wherever you get your podcasts.

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So let's say you meet somebody. You find them attractive, emotionally, or physically,

0:42.0

and you really like them. maybe they like you and maybe it could

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be more but you just don't know. How long do you wait to find out? How do you know

0:51.6

when those feelings of oh I, I have a crush, or this could go somewhere, are actually

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going to turn into something?

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Think about this woman who has a museum in a barn here in Vermont.

1:03.0

And when I met her, it was that feeling of,

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oh my God, I just can't get enough of this person.

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Erica Heilman is host and creator of the podcast Rumble Strip Vermont. It's a show we love here at

1:15.1

Love Letters. We got to talking about a significant relationship in her life that

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defied category until its destiny later became clear.

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I don't know how we decided what the terms would be between us and I'm not certain it was entirely

1:28.5

clear that it wasn't going to be a sexual relationship because it was so, what's the damn word, it was so full on like

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