The Stepchild's Dilemma — With Theo Pauline Nestor
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Whether you’re 5, 15, or 50 years old, it can be difficult to usher a stepparent in and out of the family unit. In today’s episode, the Sugars answer letters from stepchildren who have fraught relationships with their stepparents. What is a stepparent’s responsibility to a stepchild after divorce? And what can be done if you don’t like the person your parent chooses to marry?
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| 0:00.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:09.8 | The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Steve Alman. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm Cheryl Strait. |
| 0:15.6 | This is Dear Sugar's. |
| 0:17.6 | Oh dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:26.3 | Yeah, some little sweet days will be. |
| 0:33.3 | I check my bell vibes every day. |
| 0:41.3 | Oh, and this sugar, using my way. |
| 0:49.3 | Hi Cheryl. |
| 0:50.3 | Hi Steve. |
| 0:51.7 | Well, today we are going to talk about step children. |
| 0:55.5 | And this is because for long time listeners, you know, we've talked about step parents |
| 0:59.7 | in a couple of different episodes and each time our letter writers thank you basically |
| 1:04.8 | filled our inbox with questions about whether we're going to handle the experience of being |
| 1:08.7 | a step child. |
| 1:10.0 | Right, it's a fraught relationship. |
| 1:12.6 | And I think that it's one of those really rare times that we're forced to be very intimate |
| 1:19.2 | with people sometimes that we don't even like. |
| 1:22.3 | We don't even know. |
| 1:23.6 | You know, suddenly you look up and your mom or dad is married somebody else. |
| 1:27.8 | And that can be beautiful or it can be complicated. |
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