Welcome back to dating intentionally. I'm Talia, and I'm here with no nonsense

advice for navigating dating and relationships with confidence and ease, whether you've

been dating for a while or you're just starting out. I believe dating can be fun,

and I'm here to help you enjoy the process. Today I'm talking with Sandy Weiner,

the host of Last First Date Radio, a podcast that's been running for 13 years, which is

remarkable. Sandy is a dating coach who specializes in helping people a date with intention

after divorce and a midlife. She started her coaching career after her own divorce, and she's

been in the trenches of doing this work long enough to have real perspective on how dating changes across different seasons of life.

We get into what it's actually like to start dating again after a long marriage, how the pool shifts when you get into your 40s, 50s, and 60s, and what to do with the jadedness that builds up after enough disappointing experiences,

which I know is relevant to you even if you're not later on in life, right?

If you're 20s, 30s, you also have jadedness sometimes.

We also talk about how to stay open to someone's story without immediately writing them off

for their baggage.

And Sandy also talks about navigating dating as a single parent,

all about the conversation to have with your kids before you start,

when to introduce someone you're seeing,

and how to get creative with scheduling when your time is limited.

Plus, she shares something she did with her dating profile

that I really hadn't heard before, and it got her some dates.

At the end,

we answer a dating dilemma from someone who is in a no strings attached situation and she's not

sure if she should walk away or stick it out. As always, I love hearing from you. You can

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