Produced by the ilab at Wbur Boston.
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.
So won't you please share some little sweetness with me?
I check my bell eyes every day oh, and the sugar you see in my way.
Hi, Steve.
Hi, Cheryl.
So we're kind of doing one of my favorite kinds of episodes today, and that is an episode that is in its own right about something, but it's also in response to a previous episode we did.
Yes, it's the episodes I think of as the listeners are now all angry at us.
Well, not exactly, but maybe the listeners are saying, hey, I'm over here.
You talked about this issue, and I'm grateful for that, but you missed one part of it.
And of course, we always miss one part of it.
Everything in every episode.
So listeners might remember last season we did a two part series on sexless relationships, or at least relationships where there was a sense of the relationship being starved of sex.
We had Esther Perel on both parts, one and two, and she helped us answer two letters.
Both of the letters were by people who felt like they wanted more sex than their partner wanted.