Friends to Lovers to...Dogfish?
The Dating Detectives
Dear Media
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Dating Detectives, we’re joined by Nick, a rare male guest with a story that starts like a romance novel and ends in shocking betrayal. What began as a fun, flirty college friendship slowly evolved into a deep, long-distance love that spanned 15 years. From inside jokes and late-night calls to emotional support and shared dreams, Nick and Jen’s friends-to-lovers arc felt like fate, until one innocent scroll on Facebook revealed the devastating truth.
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| 0:00.0 | The following program contains names, places, and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized for the purposes of protection and safety. |
| 0:08.7 | The following program is provided for entertainment purposes only, and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular individuals or circumstances. |
| 0:21.3 | If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship, |
| 0:24.2 | please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7-233 for support. |
| 0:43.8 | Happy Monday! It's dating detectors Monday, you guys. We have quite a story. We have a story for you today. We have a story for you every week, duh. Yeah. But our guest today is special. |
| 0:51.5 | He's a dude. We don't get a lot of those on here. We don't get a lot of guys. |
| 0:55.7 | And not for lack of trying. Yeah, we always wonder, like, why don't guys tell their stories more? |
| 1:00.8 | And I really liked talking to this guest today. And I think you guys will really like him, too. |
| 1:05.4 | He's very well-spoken. And, yeah, we kind of get into that a little bit. So I think you'll like it. But I want to also firstly, |
| 1:13.5 | thank you guys for being here and for writing in and telling us your stories and also just for |
| 1:19.9 | being so supportive of our guests. So I think you'll do the same with our guest today. |
| 1:24.7 | And thank you so much for sharing our show. We'll talk about it, but a really special thing with Nick, our guest, he found out about us through our guest today. And thank you so much for sharing our show. We'll talk about it, but a really |
| 1:27.9 | special thing with Nick, our guest, he found out about us through somebody helping him through |
| 1:33.0 | his journey. It was like, hey, you got to listen to this podcast and it's helped him. So keep sharing |
| 1:37.6 | and it means the world, not just to us. But yeah, what else is going on? Merch. |
| 1:46.2 | If you want to really rep the show. |
| 1:48.2 | Merch, dating detectives. |
| 1:50.9 | The new dating detectives merch is available through Wednesday. |
| 1:52.3 | Just Wednesday. |
| 1:53.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:55.1 | The link is in the show notes. |
| 1:56.9 | We've got some fun stuff. |
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