AITA: I Want to Leave My Dying Boyfriend

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Feelings & Co.

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Her boyfriend is dying… What should she do? When you’re faced with the possibility of joining the Hot Young Widows Club, you get slammed with a million questions. And for this listener, the question was: Can I leave him even though he’s going to die? Today, Nora is joined by fellow Hot Young Widow, Tracy Koski, to get into all of it. Watch us on YouTube here! Get this episode ad-free here! Listen to Geoffrey’s album on Spotify and Apple! Shop my favorite bras and underwear at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SKIMS.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. After you place your order, be sure to let them know I sent you! Select "podcast" in the survey and be sure to select my show in the dropdown menu that follows. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠indeed.com/TFA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for all of your hiring needs! Head to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠cozyearth.com ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠and use my code NORA for up to 20% off! Find your fall staples at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Quince.com/TFA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Get your creatine at ⁠⁠livemomentous.com⁠ All-in-one nutrition for daily performace at ⁠DrinkAg1.com/THANKS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi. Hi. Hi. How are you there? Hi. Hey, Nora.
0:11.5	I'm Nora McInerney, and this is thanks for asking, a call-in show about what matters to you.
0:34.6	Hi, I'm Nora McNerney, and this is thanks for asking a call-in show about what matters to you.
0:43.7	Now, everything happens to other people until it happens to you. And when it happens to you and you become other people, you don't get any special orientation or guidebook. You just get a
0:52.1	big and usually very traumatic life change that you didn't ask for
0:57.4	and wouldn't choose from a menu and likely wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. We live,
1:04.0	quite tragically, at the speed of life. We know what we know when we know it. We learn by doing and we learn by living and we
1:14.4	learn on each other and we learn on ourselves. We are the lab rats and we are the scientists.
1:21.2	And I say all of this because when you are on the outside of something that you haven't
1:26.2	experienced or when you are on the other
1:28.7	side of something, your perspective is different. I said different, not better, because even perspective
1:36.8	is a matter of perspective. We bring our own lenses to every situation. We bring our own experiences to every situation.
1:45.9	When you are in it, you are looking up, down around hoping that there is someone out there who gets it, who can flip on a light in the darkness and help you find your way through.
1:58.7	And when you have gone through it, you can be that light for someone.
2:07.7	So today we have a message from someone who is in the darkness, a woman whose boyfriend has
2:13.6	received a very, very serious diagnosis, a woman who is on the cusp of joining the
2:18.9	Hot Young Widows Club and sent out an SOS to us via email. And joining me today, I have a fellow
2:30.0	hot young widow, one of the first widows that I met actually, who was going to help me
2:35.5	shine a little light. Tracy Kosky became a widow just months before I did in February 2014
2:43.9	when her husband Paul died from brain cancer. She is now a grief counselor, and she is here as a widow. She is here as a friend of
2:54.2	mine. She is here as a mental health professional. But I have an ask for you. Before you listen
3:02.0	or watch if you are on our YouTube, which thank you, turn your heart to its softest mode.
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