S4E1: Balls to the Wall
Love Letters
The Boston Globe
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
When Jenni and Drew hit their 40s, Drew decides to build a ball pit in their house. Not for their kids -- for him. The splurge fulfills a lifelong dream of Drew's, but it also holds a lesson about marriage, self-care at middle age, and learning to live for the moment. Email us at [email protected].
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Meredith. |
| 0:02.0 | Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously, |
| 0:06.0 | which is why I want to tell you about season 3 of the podcast Turning Points, |
| 0:10.0 | Navigating Mental Health. |
| 0:11.0 | Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of navigating mental health. Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of |
| 0:14.2 | 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. |
| 0:29.0 | 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. |
| 0:37.0 | When Jenny Krep's husband Drew came into a little family money a few years ago, |
| 0:41.0 | he considered all the different ways he might spend it. |
| 0:44.2 | Drew has an office in our basement. Essentially one whole wall is a whiteboard. |
| 0:48.6 | So he had written like dad's money in the circle, put a big circle around it. |
| 0:53.4 | And then it had little like extensions coming out of the circle |
| 0:57.2 | with all kinds of ideas like family vacation with a big X |
| 1:01.0 | through it, investing in a friend friend's startup X putting a little bit |
| 1:04.9 | toward student loans X. There was like a really cool hiking trip with our son that was a big |
| 1:10.1 | X and then ball pit with like a big circle around it. This was clearly of all the choices, the big winner. |
| 1:19.3 | From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm Meredith Goldstein. So, Hey everyone. It's so good to be back with you for season 4. I hope you're |
| 1:49.8 | all hanging in there. I know it's been a really hard stretch for a lot of people. |
| 1:54.0 | For me, I can say that good love stories have been a real source of comfort and |
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