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Death, Sex & Money - Hot Dates: Last Summer Nights

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4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We've been following eight listeners as they've dated this summer—this week, we do a final check-in as the warm weather winds down.

Go back and listen to the entire series at deathsexmoney.org/hotdates. And we know that sometimes, being single can be more fun than it seems! Head on over to our interactive Google spreadsheet where you can share the ways you treat yourself well when you're on your own, and see how other listeners do.

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0:00.0

The last email we got from you, you said, I've had some fun this summer with a wink emoji.

0:07.7

Well, you know, I was thinking about how the first time we talked, and I can't even believe that I said what I said, which is that I was looking forward to having lots of great

0:21.2

sex, because that's kind of embarrassing. But mission accomplished. Mission accomplished.

0:28.6

Fantastic. This is death, sex, and money. What happened today? Did he ask her out?

0:37.6

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:40.9

Oh, so now that you have a boyfriend, you're like a puppet.

0:43.7

And need to talk about more.

0:45.2

It's not a date. It's definitely not a date.

0:49.0

I'm Anna Sale.

0:53.2

When I first talked to Vicky for our series all about dating this summer, she told me she was looking for great sex and another grand romance.

1:02.3

She's 62, lives in the Bay Area, and has been divorced for 14 years.

1:06.6

There's a part of me that goes, well, you're getting older. Maybe we should lock some stuff down.

1:10.6

But I don't know.

1:14.5

I waffle between wanting a one-on-one monogamous companion

1:20.8

and also keeping things as they are in which I have more freedom.

1:29.3

Because the thing is, at the end of this summer, Vicky is enjoying spending time with three

1:34.0

different guys. Two, she met online, one's younger and one's older. And things have heated up

1:40.1

with a friend that she's known for years. Just recently, he asked me, you know, do we want to turn this into something?

1:49.2

And I was kind of taken aback because I was like, well, wait a minute.

1:52.8

I'm a younger man and my older man.

1:56.3

You know, I mean, I don't know.

1:59.0

Uh-huh.

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