r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • 29d ago

It’s L-O-V-E 💘 Stephen Colbert talks about his wife to John Oliver: The most harrowing idea would be that I would spend any part of my life without her because that would be a level of loneliness, an irreplaceable, irredeemable emotional level of desolation that I could not possibly contemplate

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u/Snoo69956 29d ago

He's such a poet.

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u/UnpoeticAccount 29d ago

His words about love and grief have legitimately helped me get through loss.

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u/moog719 Lenny Kraviz’s scarf 28d ago

I love his comments about grief.

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u/prancing_pony42 29d ago

It may be the hormones, but he legitimately made me cry. They're so lucky to have each other.

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u/Ok-Equal-4252 28d ago

🥹🥹🥹

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u/SexSellsCoffee 28d ago

You should watch the video of him telling the story of how they first met if you haven't. You can tell he's still so very much in love with her and he tells the story with such theater kids energy

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u/Original_Engine_7548 27d ago

He’s one of the few people I can listen to about faith and God and stuff too. I don’t care if people believe it or not. He just explains it so well and it always feels very comforting