233: Mom Gets It On

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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What's it like when your parent re-enters the dating world? Tales of teenagers coming face to face with their single mothers’ love life.

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0:00.0	Radio Tapia.
0:02.0	From PRX.
0:07.0	Hey, it's Mark Pagan here with a quick note.
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0:15.8	As you've heard me say, this show is a part of Radio Tapia, the original home for independent
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0:36.3	and thanks to your monthly donations, they get to focus on making the best show they
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0:54.3	Thank you so much.
0:55.3	I grew up in a little green house in South Minneapolis with my mom and my older brother.
1:02.0	My parents divorced when I was five, and in the nine years that followed, my mom swore
1:07.1	off dating so she could focus on being a mom.
1:10.3	As a kid, Maria was accustomed to being raised by a single mother.
1:14.0	And then in 2004, just as I was about to enter into my freshman year of high school, my
1:21.3	mom went on one blind date, which turned into two blind dates, which turned into a man
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