Dear Prudence: I’m Sick of Feeling Like I’m Always the One Doing All The Work in Dating. Help!

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Erika Ettins (founder of A Little Nudge, an online dating coaching service) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to fix a lackluster, long-distance relationship, when it is — and isn’t — a good idea to date a person who’s recently divorced, and whether a Type A person can stop doing all the work when it comes to dating. If you want more Dear Prudence, join Slate Plus, Slate’s membership program. Jenée answers an extra question every week, just for members. Go to Slate.com/prudieplus to sign up. It’s just $15 for your first three months. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, and Jenée Desmond-Harris, with help from Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear Prudence, I'm your Prudence,
0:07.0	Janay Desmond Harris.
0:09.0	Today we'll be giving advice on whether a type A person can stop doing all the work when it comes to
0:14.8	dating, how to fix a lackluster long-distance relationship, and what it is and
0:20.5	isn't a good idea to date a person who's recently divorced.
0:24.0	Here to help me out is Erica Aetton.
0:27.0	She's the founder of a little nudge where she provides online dating coaching services
0:32.0	informed by her own experiences and the economics back. online dating
0:33.6	coaching services, and the economics background she used to track her
0:36.2	dating results, hone her profile, and convert chats into actual dates.
0:40.8	She writes a weekly dating advice column and is the author of the book Love at First
0:45.0	Site Tips and Tales of Online Dating Success from a modern day matchmaker.
0:49.3	She also gives tons of free advice on Instagram stories, which is where I came across her.
0:54.3	Welcome, Erica.
0:55.3	Yay, thank you so much for having me.
0:57.1	I'm not going to lie, someone mentioned before you reached out to me.
1:00.1	They're like, I think they may have mentioned you or referenced you on the
1:04.0	Dear Prudence podcast and I'm like interesting so I had looked you up and then not a
1:08.6	day later you had written to me and I'm like this is amazing I'm so excited
1:11.9	so this was meant to be I think so.
1:13.8	Before we get started with these juicy letters I want to ask you for one piece of
1:17.8	unsolicited advice.
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