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 vibes every day.
Oh, in the sugar you see my way.
Hi, Steve.
Hi, Cheryl.
So I have a story for you.
Many years ago, I realized that I had to tell the truth about something I'd done.
And telling the truth meant that I was going to really, really hurt somebody I loved very deeply.
It also meant that I was going to have to fess up to something I deeply regretted and was ashamed of.
I had cheated on my husband, my first husband.
And I think that when we think about infidelity or any of those kinds of deceptions that we at sometimes carry on in relationships, we think about how you try to get away with it, how you try to conceal what you've done.
The thing about not saying something is it feels safe to us, and it often is safe in the short term.
And I'd reach this juncture in my life where I realized that I couldn't do that.