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Happy Valentine's Day.
Thank you, Steve.
Sweetheart, darling, do you remember last year we called our spouses on Valentine's Day?
Yes, but we're not going to call our spouses this time around.
We're going to do something that's more in keeping with the letters that we receive, kind of what comes in from the world.
And Valentine's Day is defined as this day of consecrating, of love.
But that's not the nature of the letters that we receive.
In fact, the letters that we receive are, most of the time, almost all the time, much more anguished about the love interest in their life.
And as we thought about it, we thought, well, what is the one relationship that is the most forbidden and pervasive, almost anti Valentine's Day, in a way, and that is the relationship of a crush, because a crush is, by its definition, overwhelming desire that's smashing up against total anguish and doubt.
So we're gonna talk about forbidden crushes for Valentine's Day, how anti Valentine's Day is.
I know it's kind of a dark Valentine's Day, and I will say a shout out to listeners who are sort of shaking their heads right now and saying, that's not what a crush is.
It's not so dark.
It's not so forbidden.
Right.
And I think that when we think about what crushes are, there's definitely a continuum, a range, a variation of what we mean when we say that word.
I think when I think of crushes I've had, they aren't so dark.
They're that kind of thrill or that zing.
Several years ago, when I was in graduate school, living in Syracuse, New York, there was this guy who worked in the deli at the Wegmans, and it was right after Brian and I had just gotten married, and I had that feeling of like, oh, he thinks I'm cute.
Which then made me think he was cute.