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The Viall Files

E1138 - Ask Nick - My Boyfriend Blocked Me

The Viall Files

Nick Viall

After Shows, Tv & Film, Relationships, Society & Culture

3.826.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to The Viall Files: Ask Nick edition! 

Our first caller is struggling with her boyfriend refusing to post her on his social media. Our second caller wants to move in with her boyfriend, but he's avoiding the conversation. And, our third caller is worried about who's getting the dogs after getting dumped while signing a lease extension.

"This discussion [with your boyfriend] is a tale as old as time."

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:13 - Caller One

45:35 - Caller Two

1:03:19 - Caller Three

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:34.4

My name is Jessica.

0:36.3

I'm 36, and my boyfriend refuses to share me on his social media. Is this a red flag?

0:41.9

Okay, probably. Maybe, probably. What, what, I'm assuming you've addressed this with him?

0:46.7

Yes, it's been an ongoing topic for, I want to say, a few months. How long have you been dating?

0:53.2

We've been together solid for just over two years,

0:56.3

and we're off and on about two years before that. Okay, so you had like a two-year kind of

1:00.8

situation ship. Yes. Is that, was that like a thing? What do you mean? Well, I mean, like,

1:10.1

for example, Natalie and I, now that we're married, we joke about our first nine months in our relationship. But by those first nine months, like, you know, it was a thing, you know. She wanted a date. I didn't want a date. I had some reservations, yada, yada, yada. It was, you know. And it was only nine months, but like, was there a frustrating period in those two years where maybe you or him or, you know, it was a, why weren't you together in those first two years? And I'm curious.

1:35.6

Absolutely. He, I would say, and he will admit now that he kind of put me through the ringer. It was more of like a lack of wanting to commit and whoever else and whatever else he had going on.

1:47.1

So I wasn't, you know, at that point, there was no long-term future for us.

1:54.4

It was just off and on.

1:55.6

And, you know, I wanted commitment and he didn't.

1:58.6

And yeah.

1:59.3

One day he changed his mind.

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