The Unmothered Mother
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Sugars take a question from the mother of young twins. Her own mother left when she was two years old, and her stepmother was a controlling and manipulative presence in her life. The letter writer is afraid that these toxic experiences being mothered make her destined to fail as a mother.
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| 0:00.0 | Must remember do not forget |
| 0:06.0 | forget. |
| 0:07.0 | Remind me to bring photo ID. |
| 0:11.0 | Reminder, set. |
| 0:13.0 | Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote? |
| 0:17.0 | All right, love. |
| 0:20.0 | However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May. |
| 0:24.7 | Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. UK slash voter ID. |
| 0:30.4 | 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. |
| 1:07.2 | I check my love eyes every day. |
| 1:15.0 | Oh, in the sugar, you see in my way. |
| 1:22.0 | Hi Steve, hey Cheryl. The letter we're going to discuss today is really interesting to me. |
| 1:28.0 | It's from a writer who calls herself a wounded mama and when I read her letter I think that so many people who our |
| 1:36.0 | parents are going to really relate to her question. Big time as are we so yeah |
| 1:41.0 | when you become a parent you see your own parents in a new light and |
| 1:46.0 | sometimes that's positive and sometimes that's negative and sometimes that's |
| 1:50.4 | complicated it's actually always complicated. Well you know I think in my case |
| 1:56.3 | my feelings for my mother were not complicated what they were is full of |
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