Hello, dear Sugars listeners.
As you can probably tell from my voice, I am not Cheryl strayed.
I am also not Steve Almond.
My name is Meredith Goldstein.
I'm a writer and advice columnist at the Boston Globe and the host of the Love Letters podcast, where each season we explore one big theme about love and relationships.
In the latest season, we're sharing stories about love and money, stories of secret debt, the cost of dating, divergent financial values, and more.
The team over at Dear Sugars was kind enough to let us share one of those stories with you here today.
This is an episode called whose turn is it?
And it's all about partnership and compromise.
It's about what it means to share.
I'll level with you.
As someone who was single for a very long time, there's always been something about romantic partnerships that scare me.
How do people combine their lives, their finances, and not lose out on things that give them joy?
How do people avoid getting resentful?
This episode definitely helped me see things from a different perspective.
I hope you like it, and thanks for listening.
You know how some couples have that one thing that when it comes up, it always seems to spark a little fight?
My colleague Kara Baskin and her husband Brian have one of those things.
It goes something like this.
You see, Kara is a very in demand freelance writer and makes a good living doing it.