Podcast HackThe Ends of the Earth for Someone You LoveBy This American Life, Ira Glass
In a Nutshell
In this September 2022 episode of This American Life, Ira Glass digs into two very different stories that explore the sides of love that can be difficult, tiring, and even painful.
Favorite Quote
And then the light changes and dims. And I am in the world without him in it. He sees clearly the world going on without him, me alone in the kitchen and him not next to me. We cry in each other's arms, and, without speaking, we go right up to bed for a nap at 11:00 AM.
Amy Bloom, writer and psychotherapist
Introduction
We often proclaim that we will do anything for the people we love, but how we choose to express our love looks different for everybody.
The events that impact our relationships stretch the limitations of our love in unique and often unpredictable ways.
In Ends of the Earth for Someone You Love, a September 2022 episode of the This American Life podcast, host Ira Glass introduces us to various ways people show their love.
Drawing on author Amy Bloom's navigation of her husband's assisted suicide and comedian Zarna Garg's attempt to control her daughter's college experience, Glass shows us the extreme differences in how love tests our patience and resolve.
Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack
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