This episode was originally released on May 26, 2018. In this "rapid fire" episode, the Sugars read letters from four women who each have one not-so-tiny reservation about the men they’re dating. A Black woman is dating a white man who is unwilling to talk about race issues, claiming that she’s “too sensitive.” Another woman’s boyfriend, a Christian, is having second thoughts about dating her because she’s an atheist. The Sugars tackle these issues and more, and weigh in on which can be ironed out and which should be deal breakers.
The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heartsick.
The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
I'm Steve Almond.
I'm Cheryl strayed.
This is dear sugars.
Oh, dear song, won't you please share some little sweetness with me?
I check my bell vibes every day.
Oh, and the sugar you see in my way.
Hi, Steve.
Hi, Cheryl.
Here we are going to do another rapid fire episode.
I love these because we get to answer so many letters.
I have this pressing feeling all the time when I look in our inbox of all of these letters.
It's like the letters we will never answer.
Listeners, I hope you know, if you're one of those people who has written to us what we try to do, even if we can't answer every individual letter, we try to answer every kind of letter, right?
So we hope that if we don't answer your specific question, there will be other questions that really are very applicable to yours.
Exactly right.
And there's a certain kind of letter that we get a lot and the situation varies, but it's what we think of as a there's just this one thing kind of letter, right?
Everything's great, but one thing.
And the ellipses just get larger and larger and more ominous.