The Inevitable Guilt Of Motherhood

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Being a mother means feeling conflicted in some way about the balance between raising one's children and the rest of life. The Sugars take two letters from women in the midst of such conflicts—one from a career-driven young woman who cannot fathom going back to work after the birth of her son, the other from a daughter who feels caught between the needs of her dying mother and her newborn baby girl.

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0:00.0	Dear Sugar is supported by...
0:06.0	The Universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:10.0	Sugar is here.
0:12.0	The both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:16.0	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:18.0	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:22.0	Oh dear, don't you please.
0:27.0	Yeah, some little sweet days with me.
0:35.0	I check my bedbub every day.
0:43.0	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:51.0	Hi Steve.
0:57.0	Hi Cheryl. How are you?
0:59.0	I'm good. I'm good, well, you know.
1:01.0	It's Mother's Day.
1:03.0	It's Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day.
1:05.0	Thank you. It's our Mother's Day episode at least.
1:07.0	Yeah. And we're going to be talking all about moms and some particular aspects of mothers.
1:13.0	But I know that this Mother's Day is sort of a unique one for you.
1:17.0	Yes, so listeners to the show will have known that I have a mother who I love a lot.
1:23.0	And she died actually in March.
1:29.0	And it's not something that I talked about a lot, her illness, partly because of the nature of her work.
1:35.0	As we'll find out later in the show, she was a psychoanalyst in private practice.
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