The Weight Of Love

Dear Sugars

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

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars explore the fraught relationship between body image and romance. In one letter, a married woman reconsiders her priorities after losing 100 pounds. In another, a young man wants his girlfriend to lose weight, but does not understand why she’s so upset when he broaches the subject.

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0:00.0	Dear Sugar is supported by...
0:07.6	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:12.0	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:17.0	I'm Cheryl Strade.
0:19.0	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:22.0	Oh dear, so won't you please?
0:29.0	She has some little sweet days with me.
0:37.0	I check my bell by every day.
0:45.0	Oh and this sugar, using my weight.
0:52.0	Hi Steve.
0:53.0	Hi.
0:54.0	So this week our theme is the weight of love.
0:58.0	We're talking about how body weight impacts us in our romantic and sexual and love lives.
1:04.0	Which I think is a question a lot of our listeners have.
1:07.0	It's something I've thought a lot about, like most women in America.
1:12.0	And men.
1:13.0	And men.
1:14.0	Okay, fair enough.
1:15.0	I'll also say that what happens to men and male bodies in the public eye,
1:21.0	there's no comparison to what happens to women.
1:23.0	And there are two ways that this has been an interesting experience in my life.
1:27.0	One is that I myself have been very thin.
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