S6E5: The Old College Try

Love Letters

The Boston Globe

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🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When the pandemic hit, Iz was a junior in college with a vibrant social and academic life. They also had a serious partner, with whom they’d been in a monogamous relationship. COVID turned all of that upside down. So Iz decided to try something radical: to forego app dating and look for love IRL. 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.
0:42.3	The thing that is different between the online format versus in person is that I contact
0:49.5	body language.
0:50.6	I feel like five minutes messaging versus five minutes actually having a real conversation.
0:56.5	You get such a better idea as to what kind of person they are.
0:59.3	I feel like five minutes of talking in person is equivalent to like a week maybe of messaging.
1:05.5	And I'd rather use my time that way than like guessing and trying to wonder.
1:10.2	I'd rather just figure it out in five minutes.
1:15.8	From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters.
1:19.4	I'm Meredith Goldstein.
1:26.5	I think it's fair to say we've all lost track of time.
1:42.7	The pandemic has sucked up nearly two years of our lives.
1:46.9	It's so easy to look back and feel like we need to hastily make up for what we've missed.
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