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by The Boston Globe
Love stories. Dating stories. Relationship stories. Stories about romance, marriage, partnership, sex, loss, and the human heart. Served with a side of advice. Hosted by Boston Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein.
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- 2 days ago43 min
Sending hugs
Actually, Meredith isn’t sending hugs. She’s been a bad hugger forever – and has never particularly liked that kind of platonic embrace.What do our hugging styles say about us? What if we don’t like hugging – or don’t know how to let go? In this special episode, Meredith explores the topic of hugging with our friends at Tumble Media who make a science podcast for kids. Tumble’s Lindsay Patterson describes her deep dive into hugs with a scientist who created a hugging robot. Consider this ep a nice audio cuddle. You can find more about Tumble Science Podcast for kids at www.sciencepodcastforkids.com. Remember, Love Letters has a Friends With Benefits Club with free extra episodes, an ad-free experience, and swag. Sign up at Globe.com/loveletters/friendswithbenefits. We are grateful for support. If you sign up, you’ll be able to hear a new episode about recent letters to the advice column. Also, remember to send your relationship questions (about romance, friendship, family, etc.) to that Love Letters advice column! You can submit anonymous questions to https://www.boston.com/question-for-meredith or email loveletters@boston.com. When you ask a question, you help others wondering the same thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago35 min
Oriel FeldmanHall: Social networks, but in real life
In September, Love Letters joined a Boston-area indie movie theater – the Coolidge Corner Theatre – for a special “Science on Screen” presentation of the comedy “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.”Meredith introduced the movie with Brown University’s Oriel FeldmanHall, whose lab studies real-life social networks, and how we make maps of our communities without even knowing it. They talked about the 1997 film, and then everybody watched together, with science in mind.Before the screening, Meredith and Oriel met for an interview in an upstairs room at the theater. They talked about making friends, first impressions, who gets to be the center of social circles, and what it means to gossip.Enjoy this conversation – and then watch “Romy and Michele” if you feel like it.Oriel FeldmanHall’s research can be found at www.feldmanhalllab.com.Remember, Love Letters has a Friends With Benefits Club with a free extra episodes, an ad-free experience, and swag. Sign up at Globe.com/loveletters/friendswithbenefits. We are grateful for support. If you sign up, you'll be able to hear a new episode about recent letters to the advice column.Also, you can write in to the Love Letters advice column about what’s happening in your relationship life. Submit anonymous questions to https://www.boston.com/question-for-meredith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago40 min
It's my party, you can flake if you want to
When was the last time you went to a house party – or threw one? Do you love to be invited to parties, but then, day of, feel like it’s hard to motivate yourself to get out the door?Whether you’re a party person or not, this episode will give you perspective.Our storyteller is Jazmin, our own Love Letters podcast producer, who LOVES throwing parties, but has found that others have trouble actually showing up and participating. She spills the details about a particular party this summer that left her in tears.Who saved the day? The answer is … unexpected – and includes lessons about how, why, and with WHOM we gather.Remember, Love Letters has a Friends With Benefits Club with a free extra episodes, an ad-free experience, and swag. Sign up at Globe.com/loveletters/friendswithbenefits. We are grateful for support.Also, we are an advice column! Please send a letter about what’s happening in your relationship life. You can submit anonymous questions to https://www.boston.com/question-for-meredith. When you ask a question, you help others wondering the same thing. Love Letters is a production of The Boston Globe. This short series about All Kinds of Love is brought to you in partnership with the Greater Good Science Center’s "Spreading Love Through the Media" initiative, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Oct 13, 202636 min
Zachary Reese: Not sorry for the overshare
Zachary Reese is a social psychologist who studies close relationships. He also focuses on self-disclosure – meaning, what we share with others. Do you feel like you don’t know how to make friends at work? Do you wonder whether you should turn a professional experience into a more personal bond? Are you constantly wondering, “Did I say too much about myself?” and second-guessing what you tell people you just met? Listen as Meredith and Zachary talk about sharing … while sharing with each other. So meta. Remember, Love Letters has a Friends With Benefits Club with a free extra episodes, an ad-free experience, and swag. Sign up at Globe.com/loveletters/friendswithbenefits. We are grateful for all support. Also, please send a letter about what’s happening in your relationship life to our long-running advice column. You can submit anonymous questions through our anonymous form. When you ask a question, you help others feel less alone. Studies, books, and research Zachary and I mention in this episode: “Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves by Allison Wood Brooks. Nick Epley’s work on shallowness in conversation. Ethan Cross’s research on self-disclosure. Work about in-person vs. written communication in Nature Communications. Micaela Rodriguez’s work about how being single makes it possible to grow. Reporting by Jonathan Woodward at Religion News Service. Love Letters is a production of The Boston Globe. This short series about All Kinds of Love is brought to you in partnership with the Greater Good Science Center’s "Spreading Love Through the Media" initiative, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Oct 6, 202648 min
Oh Caffrey, My Caffrey
In an exploration of all kinds of love, Meredith investigates love at work.She tries to figure out whether she loves her longtime coworker, Caffrey. Is Caffrey family? Is he simply a colleague? Does her relationship with Caffrey help her maintain strong connections in other parts of her life? Join this awkward discussion between two Globe employees who are not used to talking about their feelings for each other.We also hear a story from a Love Letters listener whose experience proves that love at work – among medical residents, specifically – isn’t like “Grey’s Anatomy” … but it is big and important.Remember, Love Letters has a Friends With Benefits Club with a free extra episodes, an ad-free experience, and swag. Sign up at Globe.com/loveletters/friendswithbenefits. We are grateful for all support.Also, please send a letter about what’s happening in your relationship life to our long-running advice column. You can submit anonymous questions to https://www.boston.com/question-for-meredith/. When you ask a question, you help others feel less alone.Love Letters is a production of The Boston Globe. This short series about All Kinds of Love is brought to you in partnership with the Greater Good Science Center’s "Spreading Love Through the Media" initiative, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 22, 202636 min
Melanie Maimon: We Belong Together (The Fall Out Boy Remix)
In our last episode, we learned how loving a boy band can help us love each other. We told the story of Theresa, a 50-something New Kids on the Block fan, who got a life-saving medical assist from Christina, another fan, who stepped up for a stranger simply because they both love NKOTB.In this follow-up episode, Bryant University assistant professor Melanie Maimon – who studies the psychology of belonging – explains how being part of a community of fans can help us develop relationships. If we love something (music, art, books, etc.) and are around likeminded others, we might be on our way to forming important platonic and romantic connections. Maimon herself is a Fall Out Boy fan. When she’s at a concert, she assumes the best of people around her – like she’s may have found her group As Fall Out Boy might put it, “I was just an only child of the universe … and then I found you.” (If you know that lyric, you're a real one.)Meredith and Maimon also get into how lonely it can feel when fans of the same artist don’t agree with each other about everything. (A timely conversation with news about Ed Sheeran, Macklemore, etc.)This episode is part of a special Love Letters series about all kinds of love. We wanted to tell these stories because without our platonic and community connections, romance is less healthy and fun. This “All Kinds of Love” series is supported by UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, as part of its "Spreading Love Through the Media" initiative, supported by the John Templeton Foundation. Remember, Love Letters is an advice column. You can send anonymous questions about friendship, dating, marriage, divorce, messy breakups, dating fatigue, situationships, etc. through our anonymous form.Also remember: we now have a Friends With Benefits program. You can get ad-free episodes, a bonus episode a month, extended cuts of episodes, and Love Letters swag by signing up at loveletters.supportingcast.fm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 15, 202648 min
New Kids on the Block saved my life
Can boy bands fans save the world? Maybe. They can certainly save each other. In this episode, we meet Theresa Crockett, of California, who needed a kidney and found hope – and a lifeline – through her love of New Kids on the Block. This is a feel-good story about love between strangers (both of whom are “Blockheads”). It’s also about supportive spouses, family members, and a guy named Donnie Wahlberg. Read more about their story here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/15/magazine/new-kids-nkotb-fans-kidney-transplant/ And learn more about kidney donation here: https://www.uclahealth.org/programs/core-kidney Our “Friends with Benefits” members get an extended cut of this episode – and one extra episode a month! And no ads! Join the group here. We appreciate your support. Also, Love Letters is an advice column; send your anonymous questions about relationships to loveletters@boston.com or through this anonymous form. When you ask a question, you help others feel less alone. 🌎 Get an exclusive 15% discount on your first Saily data plans! Use code LOVELETTERS at checkout. Download Saily app or go to to https://saily.com/LOVELETTERS ⛵ Exclusive Coveron discount: : https://coveron.com/LOVELETTERS or use the code LOVELETTERS at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 1, 202648 min
The Mother-In-Law Episode
Meredith has wondered: why do so many people despise their in-laws? Specifically … their mother-in-laws?To explore the topic, Meredith welcomes Janice Page, who tells a story about her mother-in-law, Yu Ying.Janice explains how she and her mother-in-law became close, despite not speaking the same language, and how they stayed connected over decades. Meredith and Janice discuss how to see extended family, and what relatives of partners can teach us about ourselves. Want extra new episodes? Join our Friends With Benefits club by visiting globe.com/loveletters/friendswithbenefits. You’ll get an ad-free experience, an extra episode a month, and a Love Letters journal (if you join for a year). And you'll even be able to hear an extended cut of this episode. Thank you for supporting our show. We want to support you right back. Remember, Love Letters is also an advice column. Ask Meredith a question about your relationship life by emailing loveletters@boston.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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