What It’s Like Being Married to a Stranger (with Belle Burden)
The World's First Podcast with Erin & Sara Foster
Dear Media | Wishbone Production
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
This week, Erin and Sara are joined by Belle Burden, author of the bestselling memoir “Strangers.” They discuss whether you can ever truly know someone, red flags in relationships, why women feel the need to coddle men’s egos, why she made the infamous sandwich, and much more.
Executive Producers: Erin Foster, Sara Foster, and Allison Bresnick
Associate Producers: Montana McBirney and Olivia Geffner
Audio Engineer: Josh Windisch
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:03.2 | This episode was produced by Wishbone Production. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi, I'm Otto. |
| 0:07.9 | Welcome to Ellen Sarah's podcast. |
| 0:15.9 | Okay, guys, today is a big day. |
| 0:17.8 | We have Bell Burden, the author of the crazy popular book, Strangers. You can't even get it on Amazon right now. It is back-ordered everywhere. It's very exciting that we have her. We have an amazing conversation together. Also, I want to apologize for my voice. I am a little sick. Noah just came in, took the whole house down, and then continued on with her life, |
| 0:39.1 | leaving us all in her wake. So I sound like I either have smoked like 10 packs of cigarettes today |
| 0:44.0 | or that I'm nursing a bit of a cold. Apologies, but I think it's kind of sexy. Anyway, |
| 0:49.7 | if you haven't read strangers, I think it's okay to still listen to it. But, I mean, there's not |
| 0:55.3 | really spoilers. It's her real life. So I think you know that it's about a divorce. But it's great. |
| 0:59.6 | And so I think if you haven't read it, you will want to read it by the end of this interview. |
| 1:03.9 | If you have read it, this is all the BTS behind the scenes and all the questions that you |
| 1:09.0 | would have wanted to ask, Belle, we did it for you. |
| 1:16.3 | Hi, Belle. |
| 1:17.5 | Wow. |
| 1:18.1 | Hi. Aaron and Sarah. I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:21.9 | This is like a very big get. I mean, you are like of the moment. |
| 1:26.7 | Thank you. I don't, I don't feel that way, but the fact that |
| 1:30.1 | I'm on here makes me feel great. So thank you both for asking me. You know that I texted Jen |
| 1:35.5 | from godmothers in Montecito, which is the place. It is. So beautiful. So beautiful. I don't, |
| 1:43.1 | I met her at a dinner party. So I just, and I don't do this. I don't put myself out there a lot. I cold text. |
| 1:48.3 | Sorry, what's godmothers? Erin. You're a writer. You should know this. It's the, it's the, well, I'll let Bill tell you what it is. |
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