I was only choosing dates from people that were already obsessed with me and that's like the pool that I was pulling from because it's like why put all my eggs into a basket that it's not even...

No, but I love an echo chamber. My dad says you have to go through all

the seasons all the seasons before you actually know somebody and he's a therapist

so oh wow he knows everything wow yeah

interesting advice to hear from your dad well what if you live in LA where there's no

seasons.

It's just good. Laura Zainab and Sophie. Hello and welcome to bad dates. How are you?

Hey!

We're good.

So good.

Oh, I'm so happy to have you here. I really appreciate anyone who's willing to bear

their soul about the story of love and lust and dating and shagging and all of it.

Before we get into everyone's stories I always love to get a sense of you and so let's start with

Sophie. Sophie how do you feel about dating? Are you good at it? Do you enjoy it? I'm pretty extroverted. I do enjoy it, but I've been dating my boyfriend for seven years.

And so all of my crazy stories are from like late teens, early 20s, and I just really hold on to them. I'm now glad that I was

behaving with no regard to my health so that I have some stories still to discuss with my friends because my boyfriend's just very my boyfriend's very peaceful

He doesn't have very many red flags. He has some obviously but enough that I'm willing to look past to continue our relationship.

But I definitely had no sense of my surroundings or safety as a young woman and so all of my early relationships reflect that.

Cool cool cool cool cool and did you enjoy the process?

Did you like someone getting to know you for the first time were you able to be

authentic? Did you have to put on a mask?

I don't know if I was able to be authentic,

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