Love Letters
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.
Episodes
October 28, 2025 • 25 mins
Akela Cooper knows dating can be scary. Cooper, a screenwriter known for “M3GAN,” sits down with Meredith to talk about the horror of vulnerability – and opening yourself up to love.
Enjoy this episode filled with pop culture references, advice, and thoughts about how sometimes it’s difficult to know whether you’re in a horror story … or just a bad romantic comedy.
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October 21, 2025 • 33 mins
Rory Uphold was in a literal haunted house when she realized her date for the night... might be the real monster.
Is she just a "final girl" in love?
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October 7, 2025 • 44 mins
Moving is STRESSFUL and movers... are sometimes de facto relationship experts. They help people through their most stressful moments!
In this new episode, Meredith talks to a professional mover who has seen it ALL - from makeups to breakups and even a mover fantasy? She also gets real with author Adam Sass who has moved (with his husband) 12 times in 10 years!
Is feeling “settled” is ever really possible?
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September 23, 2025 • 31 mins
Meet an aspiring Single Mother By Choice. An SMBC, if you will.
Kristy has made the decision to go it alone as she tries for her second child.
What does it mean to choose children over romance – and why does it seem to matter so much to everyone else?
Kristy joins Meredith to tell a story about controlling your own timeline in love and family planning.
Meredith's favorite character in this one: Kristy's daughter.
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September 9, 2025 • 33 mins
Jeff Hiller, a 2025 Emmy nominee for “Somebody Somewhere” – is a very funny man. A dramatic man. A theater man. A man with many feelings.
What do thoughtful performers do when they get dumped? They make a screen-worthy speech. A proclamation. Like Julia Roberts saying “Choose me!” in “My Best Friend’s Wedding.” Or Conrad saying “I still love you” on “The Summer I Turned Pretty.”
In this new episode, Jeff shares a hilarious and in...
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August 26, 2025 • 49 mins
Back in the day, Meredith was kind of … married to her mother. It was “Gilmore Girls”-esque – for better and worse.
That’s why Meredith brought her friend Kumar on Love Letters in 2022 – to talk about how having a partnership with a parent can change your love life.
Kumar was kind of married to his mom, too.
This is a classic Love Letters episode – with an update from Kumar about how how grief looks over time, and how being on...
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August 19, 2025 • 1 min
Love Letters is back with new episodes Sept. 9!
You’ll hear guests tell REAL stories about finding love … dating more honestly … planning for a family … navigating big moves with a spouse … getting over breakups (with lots of laughter) … and the importance of family and friends.
Get ready to feel your feelings. (Don’t be scared – we’ll be there with you.)
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August 12, 2025 • 25 mins
Summer camp love is for kids.
Unless you reach out to your camp crush as an adult and fall in love with them all over again.
Today, hear a classic Love Letters podcast episode about two people who reconnected after decades.
Find out where they are now – with new commentary from the original storyteller.
Maybe you'll realize the love you've been searching for ... is in your sleep-away camp directory.
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July 29, 2025 • 30 mins
Earlier this month, two executives were caught cheating – exposed via Jumbotron! – at a Coldplay concert.
It happened at Gillette Stadium, about 40 minutes from Meredith’s house.
The incident – and its viral aftermath – reminded Meredith of a classic episode of Love Letters … the one about a workplace romance that involved a woman in HR falling for an employee.
Join Meredith for a new take on the story – with thoughts on Coldp...
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July 15, 2025 • 27 mins
Five years ago, in the summer of 2020, Meredith Goldstein and the Love Letters team were in lockdown because of the pandemic, making the podcast from separate closets and basements.
In their personal lives, they were asking: how can we remain isolated without losing support from community?
How can live with loved ones …. without getting sick of them?
They found answers by interviewing two people who were already experts in bei...
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July 1, 2025 • 19 mins
This season, we’ve tried to answer one big question: Can people change for the better?
The answer has been complicated. Basically: sometimes.
In our season finale, we recap what we learned. We also visit a magical place called Butterfly Hollow, where caterpillars change into butterflies in real time. What can human learns from a creature that has to change to survive? Plenty, says an expert.
Join us for an episode that brings me...
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June 17, 2025 • 42 mins
Meredith’s sister, Brette, has told a beautiful story about falling in love with her husband. But sometimes the narrative needs to change.
In an emotional episode about partnership, sisterhood, and community, Meredith and Brette dissect the meaning of marriage – and how to make sure you’re getting what you need to be healthy.
Enjoy this one. We loved recording it.
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June 10, 2025 • 28 mins
Do you love meet-cutes? Then tune in to this episode – because Meredith would quite literally not exist without the adorable, rom-com love stories in it. Her family is FULL of meet cutes... and in this episode from Season 2 of Love Letters, you’ll get the details.
We’re re-running this classic – updated with some new thoughts – to prepare you for next week’s story, which is about how the best love stories can change.
Learn more ab...
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June 3, 2025 • 37 mins
She’s American-Israeli. He’s Palestinian. They fell in love and navigated a universe of complications. Then, in 2023, a new war. Conflict, violence, and devastation rocked the world. Echos of trauma from decades past. Mya Guarnieri tells the story of how she met her now ex-husband, fell in love, and, in 2023, became each other's best support system, as exes, when they needed each other most.
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May 20, 2025 • 38 mins
Sadie Dingfelder was in the grocery store one day. She went to her husband to ask him why he was buying something new.
Then she realized… this man was not her husband.
Sadie was eventually diagnosed with face blindness.
How did that change her perception of herself? How did it change her marriage? Sadie explains to Meredith in this funny, fascinating, and sweet episode about how we see the people we love.
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May 6, 2025 • 30 mins
Michael's anxiety got so bad it was starting to ruin his marriage. That’s why he flew to Oregon for a psilocybin treatment that wound up changing his life. But with change ... comes more questions.
Michael and his husband explain how mushrooms gave them a new perspective … on everything. Listen and take a trip to remember.
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April 29, 2025 • 53 mins
Today, we’re sharing a special episode from the Signal Award-winning podcast No Small Endeavor, a show that explores what it means to live a good life through insightful conversations with thought leaders across various disciplines. Hosted by Lee C. Camp, No Small Endeavor engages with some of the most compelling voices in philosophy, social justice, and the arts, like renowned happiness expert Gretchen Rubin, Hidden Brain podcast ...
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April 22, 2025 • 41 mins
Ever heard of perimenopause? Meredith has! So has Eileen, who tells a story about how aging changed the course of her relationships for the better. This is a story about how an evolving older body … isn’t so bad. Sometimes the best love stories come later. Join Meredith and Eileen for a story about marriage, divorce, droughts, long-distance dating, and happiness in unexpected places. Also: sign up for Meredith's newsletter at Bosto...
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April 8, 2025 • 44 mins
Economist and Wharton professor Katy Milkman has spent a lot of time figuring out why people decide to change – and how they actually do it. Through a great conversation about everything from friendships to the power of “Twilight,” Milkman gives Meredith an honest take on what we can expect from ourselves, and how we can help others evolve ... when they want to. Meet Milkman, author of "How To Change."
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April 1, 2025 • 22 mins
In Part 2 of a two-parter about video games and change, Meredith talks to Celeste Sangiorgio, a psychologist and researcher who thinks about video games a lot. Celeste happens to be co-creating a video game that’s meant to help us navigate relationships.
Join this conversation about “The Last of Us,” “Cupid Parasite,” and a bunch of games that focus on love. Meredith will also talk about hew new favorite, a game about DADDIES. Ev...
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