amy bloom / brian
august 17, 2022

novelist amy bloom joins us for our love(d) finale: a deep dive into her memoir “in love” - a beautifully rendered portrait of a mid-life romance and their decision, following her husband’s alzheimer's diagnosis, to go to dignitas - an organization based in switzerland that allows people to end their own lives with dignity and peace.

jen nilsson / jeff
august 10, 2022

jen nilsson changed her whole life when her fiance jeff died of cancer in 2018. she quit her job and set off to see the world, writing and traveling and living as if there might not be a tomorrow. a candid conversation about their 296 day love story and how her life has been transformed since jeff’s death.

ali mullen / john
august 3, 2022

montana-based mom of 3 ali mullen shares her story: falling in love with her husband john, his struggle with undiagnosed mental illness, losing him to suicide during the darkest days of the pandemic and how she and her children have found light in the days since john’s death.

nadia bowers / sasha
july 27, 2022

the lovely actor & writer nadia bowers joins us for a deeply candid and generous episode: her intensely close relationship with her sister sasha, losing her to an opioid overdose 7 years ago, and how she has navigated being in relationship with sasha since her death.

leslie gray streeter / scott
july 20, 2022

the fabulous leslie gray streeter graces episode 4: finding later in life romance with someone she knew since high school, losing scott suddenly just after they had adopted a new baby and putting the whole experience down in ink in her incredible memoir “black widow.”

melissa gould / joel
july 13, 2022

melissa gould, author of the best-selling memoir “widowish" sits down for a deeply honest conversation about her experience of love & grief: falling in love with her husband joel, losing him to multiple sclerosis 7 years ago and what the aftermath has been like for her and her daughter.

stephanie bruneau / emile
july 6, 2022

stephanie bruneau on the loss of her husband, the peace & conflict neuroscientist emile bruneau: their remarkable love story, how emile’s ‘peaceful and radiant optimism’ informed their lives together as he navigated brain cancer, and what their relationship is like now since his death in 2020

dr. lucy hone / abi
june 29, 2022

the magnificent dr. lucy hone graces our season 6 premiere: an intimate conversation about the tragic death of her 12 year old daughter, the dance of grief & resilience, and her experience of loving abi in the present tense as time goes on.

season 6: love(d)
2022

C.S. Lewis wrote: "Bereavement is not the truncation of married love, but one of its regular phases — like our honeymoon. What we want is to live our marriage well and faithfully through that phase too." Our 6th season love(d) is a series of conversations that explore that phase. This spinoff of twss features intimate conversations with people who have loved deeply and lost their partners. We dive into their love stories, talk about their loss and investigate what that relationship is like now.