Savage Love Episode 388

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2014

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This episode is riddled with parents creeping out their kids. A man in an established open relationship is horrified to learn that his step-daughter caught him chatting with other ladies. How can he explain to her that he's playing by the rules? It gets much worse. We won't reveal all here, but let's just say that your father might be into panties. And finally in our trilogy of parental distress, how the hell do you tell your kids that your family is…special? Dan brings on poly lawyer Diana Adams to help. Over in Magnumtown... In this week's "What You Got?" Dan chats with Dr. Arielle Kuperberg about her study showing that if you marry young, you're more liable to get divorced, duh. A married man and the little lady like to go out on the town and have some sexy time. But he's not as young as he used to be, and likes to enhance the evening with Viagra. Should he tell her about the Tinkerbell pills? And, tattoos. Hot or not? 206-201-2720 This podcast is brought to you by Stamps.com. Click on the microphone and enter "Savage" for $55 free postage and a digital scale. This episode is also brought to you by AdamandEve.com. Get 10 free gifts, plus free shipping when you enter offer code "Savage". This episode is also brought to you by Audible. Download a free audiobook of your choice today at

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0:00.0	You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com.
0:06.6	If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,
0:16.1	well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Podcast.
0:24.9	So, twice recently on the podcast, I have urged people in long-term relationships or people thinking about getting married to go and listen to Stephen Sondheim's shows, company and follies.
0:36.3	There's a lot of wisdom in Stephen Hott Sondheim's
0:38.5	work about relationships and that sort of sorry, grateful feeling that people in long-term
0:43.5	relationships often experience. And how that isn't indicative of, you know, a need to end the
0:50.1	relationship or some fundamental flaw in the relationship that this is actually just what a
0:54.3	long-term relationship is all about. A character is asked in company, if you're ever sorry,
0:59.5	you got married. And he sings, you're always sorry, you're always grateful. That's a long-term
1:05.1	relationship in a brilliant lyric, in a brilliant phrase, in a brilliant song and a brilliant show
1:10.2	by a brilliant man, Steven Sond song and a brilliant show by a brilliant
1:10.8	man, Steven Sondheim. I podcasted about this a couple of times, talked, urged people to go
1:15.8	listen to those and the Sondheim fans on Twitter all sort of rose up and celebrated the
1:21.7	fact that I was pushing people to go listen to Steven Sondheim. And the Sondheimosphere on
1:25.6	Twitter is a real thing. A lot of Steven Sondheim fans out there. A lot of them are on Twitter. And there are times in my long-term relationship
1:32.8	that, you know, listening to leave you in follies, leave you, leave you, how could I leave you?
1:39.3	How could I do it alone? It has helped as listening to, sorry, grateful and company has helped.
1:45.4	I was thinking about this today as I was walking to work to record this today's podcast
1:50.6	because this is the sixth anniversary of my mother's death, literally today, about 40 minutes
1:56.1	from now, six years ago in Tucson, Arizona. My mother died. And once again, the American musical theater
2:01.9	was there for me. Not Sondheim in this case, but Robert Lopez and Jeff Marks, who wrote
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