EP08: Living and Loving the Single Life
This Changes Everything with Sarah Rice
Sarah Rice - Wave Podcast Network
4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, Therapy Jeff and Sarah Rice are talking about the single life and why it's important to find ways to be happy and secure when you're not in a relationship–whether for 6 months or the rest of your life. What are the benefits of taking some time to be single and just focus on yourself without having one eye toward looking for your next relationship?
Sarah tells us about folks who are, as Dr. Bella DePaulo describes them, "single at heart?" Are you someone who doesn't need a plus-one at every event? Do you thrive in solitude? Would you much rather watch your shows and eat your snacks without having to share with someone else?
Jeff breaks down the Relationship Escalator–those steps society expects us to take when it comes to finding a partner and advancing our relationships (dating, marriage, kids, etc.)–and describes the ways society can really look down on people who, for one reason or another, don't adhere to that formula.
Jeff and Sarah talk about their favorite Disney movies and how stories like The Little Mermaid and Aladdin can reinforce our ideas of what being in a relationship should look like, for better or worse. Give up your voice for a man? Come on!
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If you're single, now's the time to lean into the cliche of dating yourself. Use the fancy teacup. Don't save the bath bomb. Take some time to explore and ask yourself who you are, for your own sake. This might be a great time to revisit our episode, "How to Feel Your Feelings".
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-feel-your-feelings/id1640548625?i=1000578782910
Bella DePaulo's article about people who are single at heart: https://medium.com/fourth-wave/single-at-heart-the-worlds-most-joyful-and-unapologetic-single-people-e928887276c4
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends. We're back. Sarah and Jeff here with episode 8 of this changes everything. |
| 0:07.0 | How you doing Jack? I'm doing really good today. How are you? I am also doing very well. My foot is almost 100% feel and my B.F. |
| 0:17.0 | So I'm having a self-care Sarah Weekend Extravaganta. If you ask me what that consists of, I do not know yes, but it will be very |
| 0:27.8 | selfish in nature. I love to hear it. Are you, are you you is your foot healing or is your ankle right? |
| 0:36.0 | Is your ankle healing because you're being good and staying off it? Yes, good job. |
| 0:40.7 | I am being so good. I am resting it. I have warned the boot and this morning I was like oh you don't need the boot today you should just go for it and then I was like no that was a dumb thing let's keep the boot on so I'm being a grown up I'm I'm you know trying something new |
| 0:58.4 | taking care of myself I support that so far so. I love to hear it. |
| 1:03.0 | I and are you a football fan Sarah? |
| 1:07.0 | My I am |
| 1:19.0 | Okay, but I am reluctantly if I don't like to admit it. I like to watch football I'm kind of calling you up right? |
| 1:23.7 | And I'm kind of calling you up right being anti fantasy football is one of my favorite things to do. Anti fantasy football? |
| 1:25.2 | I myself have played fantasy football. |
| 1:29.9 | Understand why people love it. |
| 1:32.2 | See the whole fun. |
| 1:33.4 | But this year I'm really leaning into being annoyed |
| 1:38.3 | with fantasy football as like a personality. |
| 1:41.4 | Since it's my boyfriend's like favorite thing to do on the weekends and I don't know why he like in his |
| 1:46.9 | profile on in his dating profile it said the ducious thing about me is I play fantasy for. I mean that's pretty up there. |
| 1:55.0 | He admits it. As long as he's a web event. Yeah, I mean unfortunately I am and |
| 2:01.4 | it's something that I usually keep hidden but I'm like a pretty big |
| 2:04.5 | football fan I've never played fantasy football I've played fantasy baseball and that |
| 2:08.9 | was horrible just just that seems very complicated it's really complicated and it's |
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