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Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and her sister-in-law Suzanne agree: love-at-first-sight is questionable at best. Even still, Suzanne wants to explore a love-at-first-sight romance novel while anticipating the birth of her first child.
This week on Hot & Bothered, we explore the trope “Love at First Sight.” Suzanne considers how a parent’s “supposed” to feel upon first sight of their newborn child, and how love grows and evolves over time. Vanessa considers the limitations of love-at-first-sight stories in a world full of bad men.
Along the way, Vanessa’s friend Sasha weighs-in with her own high-risk, high-reward experience with love at first sight, and we get our next writing assignment from #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn.
Next week: More love advice and a conversation with feminist and religious scholar Amy Hollywood.
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| 0:00.0 | Spoke Media. Not Sorry Productions. |
| 0:07.0 | My kindergarten teacher was everything you wanted out of a kindergarten teacher when you were five years old. |
| 0:17.0 | She was nice, she had firm routines, you got stickers when you did something good. |
| 0:22.0 | She was young. I loved her. We'll call her Ms. Chalk. |
| 0:26.0 | Even as I moved along and flourished in my academic career, my mom stayed in touch with Ms. Chalk. |
| 0:32.0 | Then a few years ago there was big news. |
| 0:36.9 | Ms Chalk had fallen madly in love with an Italian man. They met online and it was |
| 0:41.8 | love at first sight. They both just knew. They hadn't met in person yet. |
| 0:46.2 | He was waiting for her in Italy and they were gonna get married. They were gonna buy a house together each of them putting in $50,000, so Ms. Chalk wired him the money. |
| 0:56.0 | Men, of course, he disappeared. |
| 1:00.0 | She had already quit her union teaching job to move to Italy. She'd given up her house and she now had no savings to rent another one. |
| 1:09.0 | She ended up living in her car and working as a part-time security guard in an office building |
| 1:14.0 | until she could get a teaching job back, which could take years. If you were going to |
| 1:19.7 | ask me to tell you a story about Love at First Sight, this is the one I would tell you. |
| 1:25.9 | I would tell a cautionary tale. Love at first sight is high risk. It is potentially high reward, soulmate, fate-level high-reward, but the |
| 1:38.4 | risk is so high. You are trusting nothing but your instinct and a stranger. |
| 1:47.0 | Love it for sight is a nice idea, but it can leave you sleeping in your car. I'm Vanessa Zoltan and this is hot and bothered. A very special person chose love at first sight is their trope, my sister-in-law Suzanne. |
| 2:14.0 | That's right, we're talking about romantic smoochy love with the woman who married my brother. |
| 2:20.0 | She's also my friend, hilarious, a writer, and well, wonderful. |
| 2:25.0 | But yeah, she's gross taste in boys she's willing to kiss. |
| 2:28.6 | No one's perfect. |
| 2:30.4 | She is also now the amazing mom to my nephew, but at the time that we started recording this, |
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