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Love Letters

S6E2: In Love, on Duty

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

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Naomi and Chandler didn’t know each other before deploying to the same air base in Afghanistan. But they had much in common — they both came from big families and small towns, and neither was looking for love. They also knew the military frowned upon relationships on base. And yet… 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.

0:42.1

Before meeting her, what would you have said about pursuing an actual romance while

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deployed?

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Like a real romance?

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Like what would you have said about that being a good idea?

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No.

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It's general order one.

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Deployments are there for you to do your job and do your job only in not get sidetracked

0:55.8

by relationships.

1:00.0

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

1:03.4

I'm Meredith Goldstein.

1:23.4

Waiting in many ways is an extreme sport, an entertaining, sometimes fulfilling, occasionally

1:30.4

deeply dark Olympics of the human spirit.

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