S6E4: 98 Percent Perfect
Love Letters
The Boston Globe
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Just about everybody in a long-term partnership worries they’re not having the right amount of sex. It’s easy to wonder: What is “normal?” For Katie and her husband, this became a central question in their marriage – until she realized she should just stop asking. 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. |
| 0:42.8 | Years ago, a friend of mine, I'll call her Jean, received a rather unique gift at her |
| 0:48.5 | wedding shower. |
| 0:49.9 | You know how women get lingerie? |
| 0:52.7 | Well, a friend's thought she was going to be pretty creative and got me two jars of |
| 0:57.5 | one with jelly beans and one empty. |
| 1:00.8 | Wait, so what does it mean to get a big thing of jelly beans and one empty jar? |
| 1:05.6 | In your first year of marriage, what you're supposed to do is every time you had sex, you're |
| 1:10.2 | supposed to take one of the jelly beans and transfer it into the empty jar. |
| 1:13.8 | And so by the end of your year of marriage, year one, you would have transferred the full |
| 1:18.4 | jelly bean jar to the empty jelly bean jar. |
| 1:21.3 | How big was the jar of jelly beans? |
| 1:23.0 | I mean, there were so many jelly beans. |
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