S6E1: Because I Wanted To

Love Letters

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Season 6! Our theme for this season is “Breaking the Rules.” It’s all about people who went against the grain, challenged convention, or ignored those relationship myths and tropes we’ve all heard. In the first episode, Meredith tells the story of fellow journalist Kimberly Atkins Stohr, who made an unexpected choice upon getting married. 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.
0:41.1	Meredith Goldstein, Meredith Goldstein Pattinson, Meredith Pattinson, Mrs. Robert and Meredith
0:49.1	Pattinson.
0:50.1	Sounds pretty great, right?
0:52.3	Listen, I've never wanted to change my last name.
0:55.4	I am a Goldstein forever, but when it comes to celebrity crushes, I'll confess to thinking
1:00.7	about it.
1:01.7	I am not alone.
1:03.0	For many of us, including my coworker Kim, the name game started pretty young.
1:08.7	When I was like a child, I somehow thought I would be the child bride of John Taylor,
1:13.6	Kim Taylor for John Taylor and Durandran, and then when I was in high school, I was quite
1:17.6	certain I would marry Donnie Wahlberg.
1:19.6	Donnie.
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