Episodes We Love: Do I Follow My Head Or My Heart?

The Sugars get a letter from a young woman who has fallen head over heels in love. She and her boyfriend only met a month ago, but are already in...

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...

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...

Rewind: How Do I Find The Courage To Be My Own Guide?

The Sugars often discuss letters dealing with very specific problems or struggles. In this encore episode, they take on a broader, more existential question: how to follow your heart. The...

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...

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...

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.”

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,...

Redux: Moving On, Part 2

Redux: Moving On, Part 1

The Sugars have been thinking about what it means to say goodbye and let go. In this first episode of their two-part series on moving on, the Sugars and Claire...

Rewind: Pet Dilemmas

This episode from the archive is all about adventures in animal ownership! The Sugars, along with Julie Barton — author of the memoir "Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me...

Redux: The Great Reckoning

This was a live show recorded in Portland, Oregon. Special guests Mitchell S. Jackson and Rebecca Skloot share the stage with the Sugars to tell stories of personal reckoning and...

Redux: There's just one thing

The Sugars read letters from four women who each have one not-so-tiny reservation about the men they’re dating. A Black woman is dating a white man who is unwilling to...

Episodes We Love: 'Head Or The Heart' Update

The Sugars get an update from "Head or the Heart" — a woman who'd fallen in love with a man with a troubled childhood. She worried that the traumas of...

Redux: Body Weight and Romance

It’s never easy to talk to our romantic partners about their bodies, especially when it’s about weight. The Sugars, along with writer Ashley C. Ford, answer letters from people questioning...

Dear Sugars presents: "Beyond All Repair", a new murder mystery podcast

A box shows up on reporter Amory Sivertson’s doorstep. Inside are the details of a murder.

Archive: When Your Loved Ones Just Don't 'Get It'

Our loved ones are the people who are supposed to understand us. But what if they just...can't? Where do we turn then, and how do we fight the feelings of...

(Encore) Rapid Fire: Friendship, Part 2 - Male-Female Friendships

The Sugars' conversation on friendship continues with a handful of letters concerning male-female friendships. Is there such a thing as a platonic relationship between a heterosexual man and woman? Can...