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🗓️ 5 November 2025
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He was obsessed with you... texting every day, planning your wedding in week two — and now he’s gone?? 🤬
This week on Literally, Not Okay, I sit down with The Daddy Academy himself, Niko Emanuilidis, to figure out why guys love bomb and then ghost, what it actually means when they say "I'm just not a big texter," and how to stop spiraling over mixed signals. 🙃
We talk:
💥 Love bombing vs genuine connection
🚩 Red flags on first dates
👻 Post-nut clarity (yep, we went there)
🧠 Why emotionally intelligent men are rare AF
💋 The importance of a good first kiss (sorry, Nick Viall)
& why your dating life is literally... not okay.
Let’s unpack the chaos together.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.com. U.K. slash Wondery. That's audible. dot code.uk slash Wondery. You can't, you're not looking for somebody to fill your cup. Yeah. And I feel like if the only thing is like I'm on Zolov. So like it does like getting married. Is it a Zoloft? Yeah. I'm trying to get a Zolov commercial. So like, yeah, I'm on Zoloff. So like, it does, like getting married. |
| 0:21.7 | Is this an ad? |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah. I'm trying to get a Zoloff commercial. |
| 0:23.6 | So like, |
| 0:35.6 | yeah, I'm on Zoloft. I love it. But like, it's not like when I got married. Everything was just. Yeah, of course. So like, I just want women to just take the pressure off a little bit. You have to take the pressure off yourself. |
| 0:36.4 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:36.8 | Of course. |
| 0:37.5 | Okay. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm so excited to have the host of the Daddy Academy, Nico Emmanuel Liddy. |
| 0:51.6 | There it is. I've practiced saying your last name, maybe 50 times. We just said it like 30 times together. I've been really, I really take my job seriously. That was good. That was good. Nico, thank you so much for coming on the literally not okay podcast. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited. I actually have a friend who took one of your, you do like sessions. Oh, I do like coaching sessions with people, yeah. Coaching sessions for like single girls just on the hunt or they just want to learn men better. It depends. Like some people come in more of like a blank slate. Like things haven't been working. Like I kind of need an outside perspective. And then a lot of people that will come to me with like, I'm in the thick of it with this one guy. Yeah. Let me talk your ear off for 40 minutes, tell you the whole story, and then let me get your |
| 1:28.9 | opinion on it. |
| 1:29.6 | So it depends on the person. Yeah. So you're like a women therapist. I don't know. Do you like that? You know what? I do. I do like it. You do like it? Well, I love helping people. Yeah. I definitely have a younger sister. my mom, I'm a talent, half Italian, half Greek. |
| 1:44.0 | So my mom, like, like, you know, be a really close relationship with women. |
| 1:47.4 | Female, yeah. |
| 1:48.1 | Female. Definitely. I have a younger sister. My mom, I'm a talent, half Italian, half Greek. So my mom, like, like, you know, be a really close relationship with women. Female, yeah. Female energy in my family. So, like, I got like half a girl brain. So I enjoy yapping it up, you know. See, I think guys with sisters are like the best kind of guy. 100%. And my husband doesn't have a sister, but I'm just saying, like, no, I think generally speaking, I think the way I describe it, if a guy as a younger sister, he grew up with a built-in girlfriend. Yeah. Like he built in with like a little girlfriend. Yeah. His whole life where he sees, you know, the fluctuations of the moods, the moods and like how to kind of go about, you know, like relating to them and talking to them. And it's just it. You understand them a little bit better. Yeah. I always think it's a green flag if a guy has specifically a younger sister, but an older sister probably similar to. Yeah. I think too. I thought about this the other night. Like, I'm the younger, I'm the younger sibling and my husband is the older sibling. They say that's a good match. So it's a good match because I'm the annoying one and he just like has dealt with an annoying little brother his whole life. So it's kind of like it works. Yeah. They say that's a good match. Yeah. And I clock that the other night and I was like, sorry, I keep fucking saying clock it. I don't know why. but it's just a thing that's happening like we could bring the phrase but I kind of like it |
| 2:54.9 | no Justin Bieber said it and then everybody started saying it and I literally clock into you |
| 3:00.2 | it's not clocking to that I'm standing on business no but I I think that dynamic works |
| 3:05.5 | like I don't know. I clocked that. |
| 3:08.9 | Okay. |
| 3:09.5 | So why are you literally not okay today? Thank you so much for coming on. But, oh, wait, did we even talk about my friend Lacey? Okay, wait. No, okay. Wait. Do you want to answer why I'm not okay? Or do you want to pull up a picture of Lacey? So I can just remind. Because I'm really good. |
| 3:22.6 | I'm horrible with names. |
| 3:23.8 | Yeah. |
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