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Dear Sugars

Radically empathic advice. Produced by WBUR.

Episodes

Total: 392

The Sugars look at one especially painful form of love: the crush. They take questions from two lett

The Sugars are back for another batch of shorter questions and answers. They take on six quick quest

The Sugars consider the way forward for their single letter writers. For many of the women they hear

The Sugars have been avoiding the most frequently asked question they receive from women: Will I eve

The Sugars have been avoiding the most frequently asked question they receive: Will I ever find the

Happy One Year Of Sugar

2016/1/9

The Sugars look back at some of the most memorable letters of 2015. They check back in on a young ga

The Sugars often tell advice seekers: You have to go back to the beginning to get to the bottom of i

Sugar For The Holidays

2015/12/20

The Sugars take on some of the big questions of the holiday season. How do we balance the competing

Moms Who Hate Motherhood

2015/12/12

Motherhood has a near-sacred status in our society. If we dare speak negatively about it, it's only

The Weight Of Love

2015/12/5

The Sugars explore the fraught relationship between body image and romance. In one letter, a married

The Deal Killer

2015/11/28

The Sugars are taking Thanksgiving weekend off. We'll be back next week with a new episode. This wee

Dear Sugar: Live In Cambridge

2015/11/21

The Sugars record the show in front of a live audience at First Parish Church in Harvard Square. Tap

The Sugars take a question from a single father who's just dropped his oldest son off at college. He

The Sugars get a letter from a young woman who has fallen head over heels in love. She and her boyfr

Sibling Rivalry

2015/10/31

The Sugars take on sibling rivalry. The mother of an only child wonders if she should have another b

If someone smokes pot multiple times a day, but is still a highly functional partner, parent, and wo

The Sugars try something new — answering more questions, more quickly. While they always give their

The Wounded Child Within

2015/10/10

The Sugars are taking this week off, to focus on answering new letters. We'll be back next week, but

When Bad Things Happen

2015/10/3

The Sugars grapple with a difficult question — how do we make sense of the fact that very bad things

The Sugars exploration of infidelity culminates in Part 3, a conversation with Esther Perel. The rel