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Love Letters

The Boston Globe

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Back in the day, Meredith was kind of … married to her mother. It was “Gilmore Girls”-esque – for better and worse. That’s why Meredith brought her friend Kumar on Love Letters in 2022 – to talk about how having a partnership with a parent can change your love life. Kumar was kind of married to his mom, too. This is a classic Love Letters episode – with an update from Kumar about how how grief looks over time, and how being on the podcast might have helped him find a new kind of love. Listen and enjoy. Love Letters is also an advice column! Send your questions (we’ll keep them anonymous) to loveletters@boston.com. Get behind-the-scenes podcast news, giveaways, and more by signing up for the Love Letters newsletter at boston.com/Meredith (all lowercase). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's Meredith. We'll be back with new episodes on September 9th. Today, we have another
0:06.0	Love Letters classic with an update. I'm loving these updates because they give me a strange
0:11.6	kind of closure. Years ago, I had my friend Kumar on the show in an episode called The Best Partner I
0:18.2	ever had. After I released the episode, I started to worry. I felt like
0:23.7	I'd had Kumar on too soon after he'd gone through a big life event. I really want people to be
0:29.3	able to get perspective on a thing before they share too much on a podcast. That's something I
0:34.8	talked to my sister Brett about a lot. I remember that as she decided she was
0:38.9	getting a divorce, she was like, I do not mind talking about this on the podcast. And I worried she
0:44.1	wasn't ready, because by the day her feelings were changing so much. And with Kumar, as I was
0:50.4	recording him, I thought, should I be protecting my friend from talking about his
0:54.7	raw feelings while he's still in them? Now that he has some perspective, and his life has changed
1:00.2	a lot, I asked him how he felt about sharing back then. I also asked him to catch us up.
1:07.2	So first, we'll play the episode. And then, at the end, new stuff from Kumar about how his life
1:13.0	has changed and what it means to go on a podcast and say everything. Maybe before you're ready.
1:24.1	So, picture it. It's 2017. I get asked by the Australian Association in Boston to host their annual gala at a fancy hotel.
1:35.0	Apparently some members are fans of my love letters column, so they think I'd be a good host.
1:40.2	I tell them, look, I'm not Australian. And I've never been to Australia, so I don't know why you'd
1:46.6	want to choose me as your MC. And they're like, we don't care. Can you still host? So I say,
1:53.8	sure, why not? I get my hair done, and I put on a fancy dress, and I show up to the hotel
1:59.9	ballroom. And there are Australian guys
2:02.9	everywhere. They're in their 20s and 30s, and they all sound like Chris Hemsworth. A lot of them
2:10.6	are very hot. But what do I do? Who do I wind up spending the evening with? A gay man at my table who happens to love
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