"How Therapy Changed My Dating Life"
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On this Unfiltered, I’m joined by a woman in her early-mid 30s who opens up about her therapy journey and how it transformed the way she approaches dating. We hear about what led to the breakup of her four year long relationship, how she approached her healing process, and what she did differently when she got back out there. Finally, we discuss dating as an expat, what it’s like being so far away from your family, and making new female friendships in your twenties and thirties.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | You want to learn but not wallow and that's a really tricky balance to strike. |
| 0:08.4 | Hey guys, it's Alana and you're listening to seeing other people unfiltered. |
| 0:13.1 | It's Thursday. |
| 0:14.1 | So that means real life daters are coming on to share their real, sometimes shocking and always unfiltered experiences. |
| 0:21.0 | Think you're alone out there? |
| 0:22.1 | Think you're the only one whose ex hooked up with your mom or whose last date ended up |
| 0:26.1 | being a catfish? |
| 0:27.1 | Think again. |
| 0:27.9 | Hi, I am a 33-year-old single female, and I'm here to talk about my experience of dating before, during, and after therapy |
| 0:41.1 | and how therapy has impacted my dating life. I am so excited for our conversation for so many |
| 0:49.2 | reasons. I think it's one that people don't have enough. I think it's one that will bring a lot of self-reflection, |
| 0:57.1 | but also just encouragement to anyone who has not thought about going to therapy or who has |
| 1:03.1 | been on the fence about it. And I think as somebody who's been in therapy various times |
| 1:08.0 | throughout the last 10 years of my life, I think there's so much that we can |
| 1:11.9 | gain from going to therapy. And I just absolutely encourage everyone to do it. So thank you for |
| 1:18.2 | being open to sharing your experience and for coming on and just talking about such an important topic. |
| 1:23.9 | Oh, you're welcome. I'm excited to talk to you about it. Yeah. Yeah, it's been a kind of a wild ride. |
| 1:29.4 | Oh, I'm sure. Okay. So where did this wild ride begin? Let's start there. Oh, okay. So this was in my previous, in the middle of my previous relationship. We were together in nearly four years. We were best friends with the pandemic together and everything. |
| 1:45.3 | But basically during COVID, I guess a lot of things started to get tricky. |
| 1:49.8 | We were living in a very small apartment, both working from home, all of that stuff. |
| 1:54.0 | And things that maybe wouldn't have been like a big deal before were now becoming issues and not necessarily getting resolved. |
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