Friends with Benefits

New from NPR's Embedded: Hosts Victoria Estrada and Marta Martinez travel across Latin America and within the U.S. to understand how women in Brazil discovered one of the medications that's used for self-managed abortions, the spread of this method across the world, and how this ...  Show more

New from NPR's Embedded: Reporter Zach Mack thinks his dad has gone all in on conspiracy theories, while his father thinks that Zach is the one being brainwashed. In 2024, after the latest round of circular arguments, they decided to try something new, an attempt to pull each oth ...  Show more

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 male-female friendships be as emotionally satisfying as same-gender relatio ...

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 male-female friendships be as emotionally satisfying as same-gender relatio ...

hollywood has painted this scene in movies for years. life long best friends that end up falling deeply in love with one another & living happily ever after. they explore the dynamic of balancing opposite-sex friendships & what that typically tends to lead to. so today we are goi ...  Show more

Friendships. Does it ever get easier? In this weeks episode we discuss all things including school friendship trauma, being in your 20s and still struggling to form relationships and that its okay to not have a lot of friends.

I hope this episode brings some comfort to ...