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Dear Sugars

Dear Sugars

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Radically empathic advice. Produced by WBUR.Copyright Trustees of Boston University Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Rewind: Body Weight and Romance
    Dec 6 2025

    This episode was originally released on August 19, 2017. It’s never easy to talk to our romantic partners about their bodies, especially when it’s about weight. The Sugars, along with writer Ashley C. Ford, answer letters from people questioning their relationships because of major changes in their partners’ bodies.

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    34 mins
  • Episodes We Love: Love In Doubt (Rapid Fire)
    Nov 22 2025

    How many times have you heard this: "I love him, we're great together, but..."? There's always room for doubt, even in the happiest of relationships. So this week, the Sugars take on some of those doubts in rapid-fire fashion.

    This episode was originally published on January 5th, 2017.

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    42 mins
  • Rewind: The Other Half of Sexless Relationships
    Nov 8 2025

    This episode was originally released on October 28th, 2017.

    Sex-starved, meet sex-hounded. Recently, the Dear Sugars inbox was flooded with responses to the two-part episode “Sexless Relationships” with Esther Perel. In those episodes, the Sugars answered letters from people who were longing for sexual intimacy with their partners. But many readers asked why we didn’t address the other side of sexless relationships: the people who want less sex than their partners.

    In today’s episode, we hear from a letter writer who feels pressured by her partner to have sex.

    “Every night — EVERY NIGHT — when we get in bed, he rubs my back to see if he can arouse me,” writes the letter writer." "Enough is enough.”

    Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond dig into the power dynamics that play out when one partner constantly demands sex. Then, they attempt to answer the question, “Is there such a thing as wanting too much sex?”

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    24 mins
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