Let's Talk Modern Relationships & Dating

The feeling that the good ones are gone is common, and it is expensive. It changes what you say yes to, what you refuse to ask for, and how long you stay. This episode looks at the scarcity story — "t…

Anger can be a signal about a boundary, a request for recognition, or a response to feeling unsafe. It can also become a shortcut to judging someone's character. This episode looks at the gendered exp…

Money can become a stand-in for love before either person notices. One partner feels cared for when the other pays. The other starts hearing every expense as a test of commitment, competence, or gener…

A good first date does not create an obligation to keep going. This episode looks at the uncomfortable space between "nothing went wrong" and "I don't want a second date" — and why a clear, kind no is…

Online dating advice often turns self-respect into a performance: never text first, never show uncertainty, always appear in demand. This episode looks at how gendered scripts about the "high-value" m…

This episode explores how unspoken dating rules, family habits, and gendered expectations can turn ordinary differences into personal conflict. It offers practical language for making those expectatio…

Breakups can make distance feel almost cruel at first — especially when the person you are trying not to contact is also the person your body wants for comfort. This episode looks at no contact as a t…

Most of the advice about emotional independence is aimed at single people. Build yourself up, know your worth, stop needing anyone. And then you fall for someone — really fall — and somehow all of tha…

There's a particular kind of distance that doesn't announce itself. No fight, no betrayal, no clear turning point. Just a slow, quiet drift — and one day you realize that a lot of the little things yo…

That first-date electricity — the kind where time dissolves and you're already thinking about the next one before you've even reached your car — is one of the most compelling feelings in early dating.…

You've been fine. That's the problem.

There's a version of single life that feels like a lobby. You're organized, you're busy, you're doing all the right things — but somewhere underneath all of it runs a quiet current that says this isn'…