From Dating Burnout to Meeting The One at 37
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Ali from Finding Mr. Height is back, and this time she’s sharing the story of how she finally met her boyfriend. After years of dating app burnout and multiple first dates every week, she decided to try something different, showing up to real-life events with zero expectations, and one night she almost skipped ended up changing everything. In this episode, we talk about how she met her boyfriend unexpectedly, navigating early uncertainty when he left for six weeks after only three dates, and how intentional communication helped their relationship grow. We also dive into relationship timelines, moving in together, and why waiting for the right person can be worth it.
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| 0:00.0 | Allie Jackson. |
| 0:04.2 | Welcome back to seeing other people. |
| 0:05.8 | Hello. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm so excited to be back in your beautiful new studio. |
| 0:09.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:09.5 | You have been through all the iterations. |
| 0:11.5 | I feel like we, you and I have recorded on my couch, you and I recorded on my original, like, desk area in the nook. |
| 0:20.3 | That was so long ago. |
| 0:22.4 | I think we've recorded at my kitchen table. |
| 0:24.9 | Yes. |
| 0:25.9 | You have really seen all of the stages and phases of seeing other people. |
| 0:29.7 | We've been through it all. |
| 0:30.5 | I love it. |
| 0:31.0 | And this is amazing. |
| 0:31.8 | Congratulations. |
| 0:32.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:33.0 | And I'm so happy to have you back here. |
| 0:35.3 | There's so much to talk about since you were last on the podcast, |
| 0:39.3 | considering you are now ring shopping. Yeah, I, so I was like, when was the last time I was on |
| 0:47.2 | Alana's pod? And I was looking, and it was before I met my boyfriend. Which is crazy. |
| 0:52.6 | Which is crazy, given that we are now ring shopping, |
| 0:55.3 | which it's been two years. Yeah. Like that's nuts. It's also crazy because, I mean, for you, |
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