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Dear Sugars

The Infidelity Episodes: The Betrayers

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.55.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars exploration of infidelity continues with Part 2: The Betrayers. They take letters from a desperate wife, whose husband gave her a second chance after an emotional infidelity, only for her to do it again; and from a young mother who has gotten herself tangled up with the next-door neighbor after years of unhappy marriage.

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0:00.0

Must remember, do not forget.

0:07.0

Remind me to bring photo ID.

0:11.0

Reminder, set. Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote.

0:17.0

All right, love.

0:19.0

However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May.

0:24.1

Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. UK slash voter ID.

0:29.2

Dear Sugar is supported by

0:42.0

The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heart sick. Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your

0:46.2

ears. I'm Cheryl Strade. I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.

0:51.6

Oh dear song, won't you please?

0:59.0

Share some little sweet days with me.

1:05.0

I check my bell-bives every day.

1:15.0

Oh, in the sugar, you see in my way.

1:22.0

We are on about infidelity. We are on and on about infidelity. We are on and on about infidelity. Today we want to

1:27.6

continue the act of processing a little bit what it is to be in this case the betrayer last week.

1:33.4

Part two.

1:34.4

Yeah we talked about being the betrayed party and this week we're going to dig deep

1:38.7

into the guts of what it feels like from the other direction people who are the betrayers. As we said in part one, many of us

1:45.3

threat our lives. We end up being on one side of the coin or the other or both by the end.

1:49.8

Yeah, yeah and I mean I can certainly remember when I was younger, I think part of the reason maybe I waited a while to get married is I was a betrayer when I was younger.

2:04.0

When my 20s and 30s, especially in my 20s, especially in my young 20s,

2:08.0

I can remember vividly and have written and sort of in sort of very lame fictive disguise have written about that feeling of

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