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Love Letters

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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When Margaret hit her early 30s, she felt like one of those collectible toys you keep in a box – in mint condition, untouched. She wondered: What am I saving myself for? So she said yes to a throuple that seemed romantic and daring and exhilarating. It turned out to be all of those things and more. 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.
0:43.1	My friend Margaret spent her early 30s looking for a new kind of dating experience.
0:47.4	I was 32 and I was a pretty inexperienced data.
0:53.2	I had done a fair amount, but what I would like to say is I was dealing with a lack of
0:57.8	qualified applicants, no offense to anyone I dated at that time.
1:02.5	I would get a certain amount into something and then I would get anxious and I would
1:06.8	start to feel very emotionally responsible for the other person and I would not be having
1:10.4	any fun and I would stop.
1:12.9	So I was looking for not so much a dare to be great situation as a dare to be stupid
1:17.7	situation and I found a really great one.
1:25.0	From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters, I'm Meredith Goldstein.
1:49.5	Today I want to introduce you to my friend Margaret.
1:52.4	She's one of the first people I thought about when we picked this season's theme, breaking
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