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Rewind: Career Vs. Love

You love your partner, you love your career... but they're pulling you in different directions. What do you do? In this favorite episode from the archives, The Sugars have help...

33:42Jun 21, 2025

Rewind: The Great Reckoning

Dear Sugars returns to Portland, Oregon, for another epic live show. Special guests Mitchell S. Jackson and Rebecca Skloot share the stage with the Sugars to tell stories of personal...

51:32May 24, 2025

Rewind: Haunted By Ghosting

In the past, a total halt to communication with a friend might leave you feeling concerned that something bad happened to him/her. But in a time where our devices have...

36:50May 10, 2025

Rewind: Emotional Labor

Remembering the grocery list, coordinating with the babysitter, these are some of the invisible tasks that (most) women exclusively do in their romantic relationships. In this favorite episode from the...

44:16Apr 12, 2025

Redux: Sex & Aging

Dr. Pepper Schwartz, the love and relationship columnist for AARP, joins the Sugars to dispel certain myths about sex and aging: Do libidos change after menopause? How does the aging...

36:42Mar 15, 2025

The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heartsick. Dear Sugars — the cult-favorite advice column from The Rumpus — is back, but this time speaking right into your ears. Hosted by Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond, the podcast fields all your questions — no matter how deep or dark — and offers radical empathy in return.

Redux: Rapid Fire Letters

In this week’s episode, the Sugars tackle this and several other questions, including how to handle a brother-in-law who treats your vacation as his own free childcare; what to do...

32:10Feb 1, 2025

Rewind Rapid Fire: Love In Doubt

How many times have you heard this: "I love him, we're great together, but..."? There's always room for doubt, even in the happiest of relationships. So this week, the Sugars...

44:29Jan 18, 2025

From the archives: The Great Reckoning

This episode was originally published on July 28th, 2018. Special guests Mitchell S. Jackson and Rebecca Skloot share the stage with the Sugars to tell stories of personal reckoning and...

51:35Oct 26, 2024

Redux: Dark Fantasies, Part 2

In part two of our Dark Fantasies series, Dr. Ian Kerner returns to help the Sugars answer questions about where our central ideas about sex and eroticism come from, and...

29:07Sep 28, 2024

Redux: Dark Fantasies, Part 1

Dr. Ian Kerner, a psychotherapist and sexuality counselor, helps the Sugars answer a letter from a woman who calls herself “Fed Up With Fantasy.”

32:32Aug 31, 2024

Redux: Should I Intervene?

When we decide to meddle, it can often backfire. The Sugars, along with the writer Meghan Daum, answer letters from people who see loved ones heading down the wrong path,...

40:58Aug 3, 2024
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