"I Like You, But I Don’t Like Labels"
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this Unfiltered, our anonymous guest shares her journey through a confusing relationship that began as a friendship and turned toxic. Despite emotional attachment and unclear boundaries, the relationship was marked by lies, invalidated feelings, and constant back-and-forth. After years of trying to move on, a pivotal moment led her to finally break free and prioritize self-worth. Now thriving, she reflect on the importance of choosing yourself over toxic situations.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey guys, it's Alana and you're listening to seeing other people unfiltered. |
| 0:09.9 | It's Thursday, so that means real-life daters are coming on to share their real, sometimes shocking, and always unfiltered experiences. |
| 0:17.8 | Think you're alone out there? |
| 0:19.0 | Think you're the only one whose ex hooked up with your mom |
| 0:21.5 | or whose last date ended up being a catfish? Think again. I am anonymous and I'm here to talk about |
| 0:27.6 | ending my three and a half year long situation ship. That is a long time. It's a very long time. |
| 0:34.8 | And consistently too. Like there was not really too many periods of, like, |
| 0:38.7 | no contact. It was, like, consistent three and a half years. Like, I want to give you the biggest |
| 0:44.5 | head right now. Yeah. I thought it was my life's curse that I was going to be in this cycle forever, |
| 0:51.3 | but I'm happy to say that I'm out of it. You live to tell the tale. |
| 0:55.2 | I live to tell the tale. |
| 0:56.1 | Yeah, I'm on the other side. Okay. Let's jump right in. I have so many questions. Yeah. I don't know why I'm like laughing right now. Just I think because like I get it. Yeah. Because you don't do it on purpose. you just end up in this situation and you're like, oh. |
| 1:11.1 | And you can't get out and you can't get out and you can't get out. |
| 1:13.6 | Yes. |
| 1:13.9 | And one day you do. Because you don't do it on purpose. You just end up in this situation and you're like, oh. |
| 1:14.5 | And you can't get out and you can't get out and you can't get out. And one day you do. |
| 1:47.7 | Yes. Take me back to the beginning. So we met towards the end of like 2020-ish. We were part of the same like big group of friends, which is like we're still all very close, which again is why it was so hard to kind of get out of it for so long. So then around like the beginning of like 2021, he started just asking me to hang out one on one a little bit more. And I was like, oh, okay, like it wasn't, we were never friends like that in the group. So I was like, okay, this guy seems like very nice. He's very sweet. He's cute. |
| 1:45.7 | And I remember I wish I had the screenshot still of me telling my friends, oh my God, this guy is so nice. I'm totally going to break his heart because like, here we are. But because I thought he was a very nice guy. I thought he was very different the way he kind of portrayed himself. And I understand now that's kind of his long game. So yeah, he started, you know, asking me to like, oh, you know, we're going to go get, |
| 2:03.3 | I'm going to go get, |
| 2:03.3 | I'm going to go get drinks after work. Like, do you want to come in up with me? So it would just be like |
| 2:06.3 | me and him at the bar, like, you know, hanging out. And there would be a little like hand on the lower back, like hand on the thigh. So I was like, it was just a very slow thing where we're like, |
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