S4E9: Move Over, Hugh Grant

Love Letters

The Boston Globe

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Paul’s story is straight out of a rom-com. After his first marriage fell apart, he gave up on love. Then a woman walked into his life, and, well, she changed his mind. That was more than 30 years ago. Through sickness, health, and many tears along the way, Paul and his wife learned the secret to a successful partnership: You just keep showing up. Email us at loveletters@boston.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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	Paul is a publicist and writer in Boston in his early 60s.
0:41.0	He freely admits he steals some of his best romantic lines and
0:45.4	gestures from the movies. Do you remember the proposal just because people love
0:50.0	proposal stories? What was the line that I use?
0:53.0	When most men consider marriage, they think, can I live with this person for the rest of my life?
1:01.8	And I said, with you you I'm asking myself can I live without you and the
1:08.4	answer is no I cannot I can't remember where I grabbed that from but it was a
1:12.2	I loved the line.
1:13.5	It's a it's a good line and I and it's whatever it's yours now.
1:17.5	From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is love letters.
1:24.0	I'm Meredith Goldstein. So, So this season of the podcast has been one of growth, evolution and many different lessons. We've talked to teenagers who turned
1:56.1	epic love stories into poetry, longtime friends and couples who remain together forever
2:01.6	despite great change. single people who learned to draw
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