When Friendships End

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Friendships are different from any other type of relationship in our lives. They are purely voluntary, and so can feel more tenuous. Do you tell a friend if you are unhappy with the relationship, or do you just leave? And if you do leave, how do you break up with a friend? In this episode, the Sugars field questions from two letter writers who both feel exhausted by a friendship, and want out.

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0:00.0	Must remember, do not forget.
0:07.0	Remind me to bring photo ID.
0:11.0	Reminder, set. Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote.
0:17.0	All right, love.
0:19.0	However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May.
0:24.1	Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. UK slash voter ID.
0:29.2	Dear Sugar is supported by
0:41.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your
0:46.2	ears. I'm Cheryl Strade. I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:51.6	Oh dear,, won't you please?
0:59.0	Share some little sweet days with me.
1:05.0	I check my bell-bives every day. Oh in the sugar you see in my way.
1:21.0	Hey Steve, Hey Cheryl.
1:23.0	Welcome back to another episode of Dear Sugar Radio.
1:27.0	Yes.
1:28.0	We're going to be talking about friendships today.
1:29.0	Yes, we're going to focus on friendships, troubled friendships, and I'm certainly not happy that these letter writers
1:35.1	are in friendships that are painful, but I'm happy to be able to talk about friendship because
1:39.8	it's a relationship. We get lots and lots and lots of letters that have to do with marriages, romantic
1:45.4	relationships, relationships with family. But the thing about friendship is that it is profound
1:51.4	to us, it is deeply important to us, and yet there's a kind of code of silence
1:56.1	around it because it is, if you think about it, a relationship that is purely voluntary.
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