Bisexual Wife Guy

Proxy with Yowei Shaw

Yowei Shaw

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The case of the bisexual wife guy who got dumped.

George was married to a woman he loved. Then she came out as bisexual and left the marriage. George is happy for her. But he's also heartbroken, confused, and stuck with questions he doesn’t feel allowed to ask.

In this episode, Yowei connects George with Hanna Rosin, who has lived a version of this story from the other side. Together, they investigate late-in-life queerness, divorce, closure, performative okayness, and how to move forward when you feel like a minor character written out of someone else’s story.

From the episode:

— Hanna Rosin, host of the podcasts Radio Atlantic and Chutzpod! — on X and Instagram: @hannarosin

New to Proxy? Try Mic Chooses the Wrong Life for a story about when the road not taken won’t leave you alone, or Yowei Can't Speak Bro for a story about loving someone whose language of connection doesn’t make sense to you.

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:06.6	Hey, babe, I have a question about the episode.
0:09.4	Well, you're in luck.
0:11.4	How do you feel about me calling you a bisexual wife guy?
0:14.2	Uh, I mean, I don't know. It's fine. I don't know. It's cool. You wouldn't mind if I just, like, shouted you out at the end of every episode from now on. Our mixing engineer is Kyle Pooley, also bisexual wife guy. No, I think it's bad branding. I think it's too navel-gazy. Bad branding for you or bad branding for me? Well, I don't think I'm, all right, what are we talking about? Are we going to talk about this episode or not? I have calls with clients. Like, what are we even? Okay, okay, okay. I'm just letting you know that there's going to be another cut for you to master
0:55.9	because I have a few back checking fixes.
0:58.0	Okay.
0:58.9	That's fine.
0:59.6	I can do that.
1:00.8	Okay.
1:01.5	Have a good day of work.
1:02.7	All right.
1:03.1	Yes.
1:03.4	Thank you.
1:03.8	Bye.
1:04.1	Love you.
1:04.5	Bye.
1:04.7	Bye.
1:04.9	Bye.
1:04.9	This is Proxy.
1:16.0	I'm Yo-A-Shaw, your emotional investigative journalist.
1:20.0	Today, the case of the bisexual wife guy who got dumped.
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