The Land Of The In-Law
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Entering into another family is like entering into another culture — with its own codes, expectations, and set of rules. Naturally, it's a situation ripe for conflict and contention. The Sugars field questions from two letter writers dealing with fraught in-law relationships.
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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 |
| 0:41.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heart sick. |
| 0:46.2 | Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your 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 everyday. |
| 1:10.0 | Every day. Oh, in the sugar, you see in my way. |
| 1:22.0 | Welcome to another episode of Dear Sugar Radio. Steve, hello, we are talking today not just |
| 1:28.9 | about in-laws, but about what I like to call outlaws. Yes. |
| 1:33.2 | Is there anyone out there who's had an absolutely conflict-free relationship with their in-laws? |
| 1:39.1 | Certainly not who's going to write to us? |
| 1:40.9 | Well, that relationship is like, I don't want to say it's unnatural but think about how |
| 1:45.6 | fraud it is to be in that circumstance you are suddenly a part of a family that you did not choose and it's enforced by a kind of |
| 1:56.5 | transitive love. Right. You're not just marrying them you're marrying a family and |
| 2:00.4 | what is a family but a microculture. |
| 2:03.0 | Every family has its own culture, its own codes, its own expectations, its own set of rules. |
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