How To Bring Up Trauma When Newly Dating ft. Matt Bocchi
We Met At Acme
Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar
4.2 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I am virtually by Matt Bocchi, the author of Sway. We dis- cuss starting a new relationship, how to make it work if it's an LDR in the beginning, addiction, struggling with the tragic loss of a parent, what it means to date younger vs older, being sexually abused as a child, how much you should open up about your trauma, how to bring up trauma when newly dating, and more. This episode starts with a solo where I discuss how many of my rules my SO followed/broke, if my rules should be for casual daters too, the spark vs. checking boxes, the best ways to sniff out compatibility on dating apps, cheating and if all men do it or not, and how Nantucket was!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a DR Media production. |
| 0:06.4 | Hey guys, welcome back to We Met at Acme. I am really excited for today's episode. Matt is |
| 0:12.6 | such a sweetheart and he's really been through so much. He's a real guy, like a real person who has |
| 0:21.0 | lived and his book is really incredible. I really suggest that you pick it up. Pretty sure I just |
| 0:27.5 | said really 500 times, but I mean it. I'm actually sitting in our VRBO rental in Nantucket. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm here with a lot of my friends, a bunch of different couples from BU where I went to school. |
| 0:43.8 | It is so much fun. I highly recommend everyone visit Nantucket if you haven't. I didn't really |
| 0:51.7 | know what to expect to be honest with you. I was like, oh, it seems a little stuffy. It is the |
| 0:58.0 | most laid back place. It's so accessible. If you're coming from Boston or you can fly from New York, |
| 1:05.8 | it's just so cute. Everyone here is so nice and funny and it's like kooky, really loving it here. |
| 1:13.9 | It's funny because last night my friends got pretty drunk and as they should, they're on vacation. |
| 1:22.7 | As many of you know, I'm sober and I was saying to my boyfriend, when everyone's |
| 1:28.4 | bucked up, it's so fun for me. I feed off of it. Because I have energy naturally, I'm dancing |
| 1:36.5 | with everyone and laughing with everyone. It's really, really fun. If you're ever worried about |
| 1:42.8 | being sober, you're still going to be fun. You just have to lean into it and it's like, I got |
| 1:49.9 | to have fun with everyone last night and I didn't have to wake up hungover. That's the difference. |
| 1:56.2 | I just highly recommend it. I'm going to answer a few of your questions and then we'll get right into |
| 2:01.6 | map. Actually, I want to do a little debrief. Someone asked me to do a little debrief on the author |
| 2:07.7 | by Manlough Bitches. Yeah, I mean, Sherry had a lot of things to say that I agreed with and a |
| 2:14.3 | lot of things to say that I didn't agree with. I don't feel like if you have one bad relationship |
| 2:18.8 | in your 20s or ruined or like if you post a sexy picture on Instagram, that's the end of you. |
| 2:25.5 | Not at all. I think of course she's a little older and not in the Instagram age. I think you |
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