373: What if your boyfriend ghosted you for his wedding?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Still reeling from an abusive relationship and the loss of her mother, a single woman travels to Mexico, plunging into a whirlwind situationship where nothing is as it seems.
Today’s episode featured Aly. If you’d like to reach out to Aly, you can email her at [email protected]. Aly is on Instagram @AlySpeaksUp.
Aly is a certified coach, and host of Sex, Lies & Tacos & This Could Get Messy podcasts.
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Aviva Lipkowitz
Content/Trigger Warnings: cancer/death from cancer, suicidal ideations, romantic con, divorce, disordered eating, gaslighting, physical/emotion/financial abuse of a partner, revenge/blackmail with use of private, personal photos and videos, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to exclusive episodes of This Is Actually Happening |
| 0:05.0 | by joining Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:09.6 | This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:13.9 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode |
| 0:17.0 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:30.1 | Hi listeners. Just a quick note to let you know that our friends over at Trauma Bonded are releasing a storyteller update tomorrow. You'll hear from Nas, featured in episode |
| 0:35.4 | 347, What If You Were Held Captive in Plain |
| 0:38.6 | Sight? She reflects on what it was like to share her story on the show and the ripple effects |
| 0:43.0 | that followed. And now, onto our new episode today, what if your boyfriend ghosted you |
| 0:48.1 | for his wedding? |
| 0:51.7 | So many people have heard my story, and I know they're thinking, well, I would never find myself in that situation. |
| 0:58.0 | I never thought I would either. But you don't know until you're in it. |
| 1:03.0 | And when you are a person who is honest and speaks the truth and is authentic, it's really, really hard to believe that somebody else isn't |
| 1:13.0 | when they're presenting that they are like you. |
| 1:18.9 | From Wondery, I'm Whit Misseldine. |
| 1:26.3 | You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. |
| 1:32.9 | Episode 373. |
| 1:36.5 | What if your boyfriend ghosted you for his wedding? |
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| 1:58.8 | From boardroom blowups to strategies gone wrong. These are the stories behind the headlines. |
| 2:02.6 | Listen to Business Wars on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 2:06.0 | My name is T.J. Raphael. |
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