S6E3: So Long, Splitsville
Love Letters
The Boston Globe
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
When Ian Coss talks about the legacy of divorce in his family, he’s not kidding. Everybody split up -- parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, multiple aunts and uncles. So when Ian fell in love himself, understanding these broken commitments became his way of avoiding the same fate. Plus, writer and podcaster Christina Tucker on whether universal rules even exist in love and dating. Email us at [email protected]. (Next episode: Jan. 4)
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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. |
| 0:34.6 | Find Turning Points wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:43.0 | I did kind of imagine maybe there was a pattern, you know, a reason why every marriage fails. |
| 0:50.0 | A joke about how I was like looking for the divorce gene in my family and, you know, |
| 0:54.8 | there was some secret, there's like this little code in our DNA that's off and like we |
| 1:00.2 | hit a point in every relationship and it switched flips and suddenly we can't do it anymore. |
| 1:08.2 | From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm Meredith Goldstein. |
| 1:24.8 | Many of the dating and relationship rules we're talking about this season come from society, |
| 1:36.8 | from culture, passed down over generations. |
| 1:40.4 | Today's story is about breaking a different kind of rule. |
| 1:43.7 | This rule, it's more of a pattern, a family pattern that also goes back generations. |
| 1:50.2 | One Coss is a podcast producer, sound artist, and musician. |
| 1:53.9 | He's worked on many stories about other people. |
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