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Love Letters

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Love Tips, Breakups, Dating, Relationship Tips, Love, Dating And Relationships, Love Advice, Advice, Dating Tips, Marriage Advice, Breakup Advice, Relationship Advice, The Boston Globe, Boston, Society & Culture, Love Letters, Meredith Goldstein, Dating Advice, Letters, Relationships, Boston Globe

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Meredith and producer Katelyn Harrop take up two letters to Meredith's Love Letters advice column. In the first letter, a man wonders if he should send that closure email he's got all cued up. In the second, a writer asks if she should have worked harder to fix a former relationship. Email your dating and relationship questions to [email protected].

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's Meredith. I'm sitting here with all of my letters that I received

0:10.4

over the weekend for the Advice Column of Letters. And I'm here with Caitlin, our producer,

0:15.7

hi Caitlin. Hey, how's it going? It's good. I have to tell you that letters I get for

0:21.2

the Advice Column at the beginning of the week, meaning they were most likely written

0:25.8

during the weekend. Very different than letters I get on a Thursday or Friday. Say more.

0:31.6

Well, I think there's something psychologically and you know, everybody's got different shifts

0:37.3

with work and different schedules, but specifically letters that were clearly written

0:42.4

Saturday, let's say after midnight, sent to me Sunday, sent to me Sunday night, have

0:48.3

like a totally different vibe than on a Thursday morning. And I just, you know, it's actually

0:55.0

going to become encounter intuitive. Like you would think that they are the more chaotic

0:59.6

letters, letters that were sent in the heat of the moment, but it actually goes the other

1:02.8

way, I think. I think people spend an entire weekend or they sit, you know, really late

1:07.4

at night thinking of their problem and maybe they draft and redraft. Whereas the letters

1:11.2

I get on like a Thursday morning, it's sort of the opposite that you would think like

1:15.3

they're dashed off maybe after a weird Wednesday night. And they're, they're actually

1:21.4

much less thought out and rehearsed. I don't know if that one is better than the other,

1:26.3

but I just think it's interesting, like what I wake up to on a Monday or a Tuesday is

1:31.6

just, you know, people who have clearly like drafted and redrafted and really thought

1:37.0

about their problem to say they had a little weekend time to get into it. Yeah, they did.

1:42.2

Maybe they had like an entirely free Saturday and they watched a ton of TV or they did

1:47.0

nothing. Are they like, that's why they like went on a walk with a friend and like talked

1:51.2

it out a little bit maybe? Yeah, or they went on like two bad dates and like need to process it.

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