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Love Letters

S5E8: The Connecticut Wife

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

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Many of us have clear expectations for our romantic lives. We envision a certain kind of partner, a certain kind of relationship. But Nicole found her new beginning after giving herself permission to change course. The end result? She’s built a life she never imagined for herself. Email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Meredith.

0:01.8

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

0:06.0

is why I want to tell you about season three of the podcast Turning Points, Navigating

0:10.2

Mental Health.

0:11.8

Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of Navigating Mental Health and the Turning

0:16.2

Points that can spark lifelong changes.

0:19.3

Post Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, dualists, writers

0:24.5

and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between.

0:29.6

Turning Points, a podcast from point 32 health in partnership with Boston Globe Media.

0:34.7

Find Turning Points wherever you get your podcasts.

0:42.9

Men that I've dated in the past told me that I wasn't worthy to get married, and they

0:46.4

never saw me getting married.

0:47.4

I even had one person tell me he was like, if you ever want to see yourself married,

0:51.4

you're just going to have to date a woman because the things that you're looking for, no

0:54.8

man is going to want to give you.

0:56.2

And I'm like, I just want somebody to respect me.

0:58.3

Why is that so much to ask?

0:59.7

Why is that so much to ask?

1:03.5

From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters.

1:06.9

I'm Meredith Goldstein.

1:27.1

One of my favorite things about hearing all these love and relationship stories is that

1:31.9

they don't always turn out the way you think.

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