The Weight Of Love
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Sugars revisit an episode in which they explored the fraught relationship between body image and romance. They're joined by the writer Lindy West, who has much to say on what it means to be a fat woman in our society.
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| 1:24.1 | So this week, our theme is the weight of love. |
| 1:27.6 | Yes. |
| 1:28.2 | We're talking about how body weight impacts us in our romantic and sexual and love lives, |
| 1:33.7 | which I think is a question a lot of our listeners have. |
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