Relationships

Love, friendship, and everything in between—relationships are the threads that weave through our lives, often messy, sometimes broken, but always essential. Here, we talk about the highs and lows of connecting with others, the joy of finding your people, and the heartache when things fall apart. Because relationships are complicated, and sometimes just hearing someone else’s story can make you feel a little less alone.

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  • Born Fat

    Genna is fat. They are also queer and nonbinary. All of these things can make a person feel marginalized in a straight, cisgender, thin-obsessed society … but for Genna, it’s…

    September 6, 2022

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  • The Missing Puzzle Piece

    Chelsea’s mom and unborn brother died in a car accident on Chelsea’s first birthday, leaving little Chelsea and her grief-stricken father behind to piece back together their shattered life. As…

    June 28, 2022

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  • Asking for a Friend

    When romantic relationships end, there’s usually a clean cut – a moment, a conversation, an argument that ends things for good. When friendships dissolve, the break is usually way less…

    June 21, 2022

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  • Saved As Draft

    Why do we hold on to things we no longer need? For many of us, it’s because they remind us of who we were and who we thought we might…

    June 7, 2022

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  • Matchmaker, Make Me a Match

    Last year, we did a virtual live show on Valentine’s Day, and Nora — who considers herself a bit of a matchmaker — did some matchmaking. And while she was…

    May 31, 2022

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  • Motherless Day

    Some holidays are just more loaded than others, depending on our individual experiences. When you’re grieving the loss of your mother — either because they’ve died or because you don’t…

    May 3, 2022

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  • Widowed*

    Grief comes with so much judgment. Everybody is sure that there’s a right way to do it, and only for a certain length of time. If our grief doesn’t neatly…

    March 29, 2022

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  • Tell Me About Them

    When someone we love dies, we become the vessels responsible for carrying their memory forward. The people we love stay alive in the big things, of course … but in…

    March 1, 2022

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  • Liam and the Letters

    Liam was raised as a girl, but from a very young age he knew that just … didn’t make sense.

    February 22, 2022

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  • 26 Pages

    Many people who have autism are diagnosed at a young age. But today’s guest, Grace, wasn’t diagnosed with autism until she was 27 years old. In the months since the…

    February 2, 2022

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  • We’re Supposed to Be Four

    It’s the stuff of romantic comedies: Man meets woman as they’re boarding a flight. The two quickly discover they share many similarities and go on to chat for hours. There’s…

    January 12, 2022

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  • The Grudge Book

    About six years ago, Nora took a notebook and wrote down all of the grudges she was holding against people … and then, she left that notebook in a seat-back…

    September 14, 2021

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  • Happyish Holidays 2020

    This episode features conversations with people doing the best they can in difficult circumstances. Like Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, whose husband Dr. Paul Kalanithi was a notable and rising brain surgeon…

    November 24, 2020

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  • Ride Through It

    Lyndsey and her mother have a shared love of horses. They both compete in dressage (Google it). They ride together after their daily farm chores are finished. But Lyndsey is…

    September 1, 2020

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  • For The Next Ten Minutes

    When you believe that love will never, could never happen to you, it feels like a miracle when it finally does. This is the story of a young man named…

    March 24, 2020

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