"From Roommates to Soulmates"
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
When Waverly Colville signed a lease with a stranger named John Guilyard in the summer of 2020, she never imagined she was also meeting her future partner. Two years of friendship, late-night talks, and dancing around their feelings later, one kiss changed everything. In this episode, Waverly and John join us to share the real story of how they went from roommates to best friends to partners — and everything they learned along the way about timing, fear, and falling in love with someone who already knows the real you.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:07.9 | You guys, I'm so excited for today's episode. We have such incredible guests. We have |
| 0:13.3 | Waverly Colville and John Gileard. You guys, welcome to seeing other people. Hi. We're so excited to |
| 0:20.4 | be here. This episode is a long time coming. We |
| 0:24.5 | chatted back in December, I think, right? I think it was like, yeah, December or January, somewhere |
| 0:31.1 | around there. This was after, I had posted a story about wanting to have couples come on to share |
| 0:36.5 | like how they met and how their relationship progressed. |
| 0:39.3 | And we briefly connected and then life happens. And now we're doing this. I am so excited to hear your guys's story. |
| 0:47.7 | I think it's like such a classic New York, not classic, but like classic and like a one for the books, like would see |
| 0:56.6 | this in a movie of not just friends to lovers, but roommates. |
| 1:02.5 | Yes. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, random roommates. |
| 1:04.9 | Random roommates off of a Facebook housing group. |
| 1:07.5 | That's how we met. |
| 1:22.9 | Unreal. And let's get into it. Before we really dive in, though, can you both share a little bit about, you know, what was going on in your life before you met each other? Yeah. So it was 20-20. So we were in the |
| 1:32.3 | height of the pandemic. My birthday is March 6th. And so I had just celebrated my, oh, was it 24th or |
| 1:39.7 | 25th birthday? Probably your 25th. And also like the one year anniversary of being removed from offices |
| 1:45.5 | and stuff because it was like March 6th. It was like the last day in offices. I felt like the year before. |
| 1:49.7 | Yeah. Yeah. No, no. That was that year because it was 2020. So that year feels like two years. |
| 1:55.6 | Honestly. My bad. But yeah. So I had just celebrated my 24th birthday on March 6 of 2020. And then as we all know, |
| 2:02.6 | the world completely shut down. I'm originally from Buffalo, New York. So I ended up going back upstate |
| 2:08.1 | and living in my parents' house. And it was in July or sorry, we connected at like middle to end of |
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