S4E7: Three Chords and the Truth

Love Letters

The Boston Globe

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The thing about love is, we never stop learning. That’s a good thing. We’re supposed to be ever-evolving creatures, always working to be better. After three long-term relationships, Claire knows this as well as anyone. This is her story: three loves, many lessons. 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	Claire has a type, and that type is a guy who is hot.
0:42.0	As it happens, I like hot guys too. So Claire and I, we understand each other.
0:49.7	We met and he again was incredibly beautiful.
0:54.3	I'm sensing a trend.
0:57.0	Yeah, you are meridists, you are sensing a trend.
1:00.0	Incredibly beautiful and plays the guitar and writes lovely songs and I just felt absolutely head over heels in love with him.
1:08.0	He used to be in a band in the 80s and they had a couple of hits. think they had a number one hit in Iceland or somewhere crazy
1:16.1	Oh my god when we when we get offline I'm gonna make you tell me off the record who this is because I'm desperate to know you can't you won't you won't know and and you won't tell me. Well I won't tell you but you anyway if you think of George Michael in the 80s, right? Well he looked like George Michael in the 80s, but with white trousers in his band with his guitar.
1:36.6	Right. So it was pretty gorgeous.
2:16.7	From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters. I'm Meredith Goldstein. Oh, One of the things I'm realizing this season as we dwell on lessons we learn at different ages is that really we never stop learning.
2:22.3	You might fall madly in love and have a happy marriage, but as you enjoy and tend to that partnership, the lessons just keep coming.
2:24.4	That's not a bad thing. We're supposed to be ever evolving creatures,
2:29.5	always working to be better to ourselves, better to the people we love. Today's story proves
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