I Think I'm In Love With My Platonic Life Partner—Help!
Dear Shandy
Sharleen Joynt & Andy Levine
4.9 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
It's Caller Day! Today's lovely caller, Kelsey, introduces us to a popular new term (Platonic Life Partner, or "PLP"), redefining what one's "soulmate" might look like. But Kelsey also has quite the conundrum: she has developed romantic feelings for her PLP. Are these feelings real and should she act on them, even at the risk of the special platonic bond and partnership they've developed? Listen on for the Shandy take!
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| 0:00.0 | It's like the word best friend doesn't even do it justice because you don't necessarily buy property with your best friend |
| 0:04.5 | I wish I had a best friend like that. I mean if I lived with any of my best friends there'd be like a homicide at some point |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome back to do your shandy listeners. Hello, Andy. Hello. How are you today? |
| 0:22.1 | Doing okay. It's caller day sure is we love a caller |
| 0:26.2 | We do yeah, and it turns out people of colors too because what I said I thought about cutting these people were like don't |
| 0:32.6 | The love was intense. Yes. It's lovely |
| 0:35.8 | So today we are joined by Kelsey Kelsey. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. I am |
| 0:42.6 | Here you are |
| 0:44.1 | Do you mind giving us your age the age of the person in question where you are located in this world more or less and your story please |
| 0:53.8 | Absolutely, I'm down here in Austin, Texas. I am 28 and the person in question is 29 |
| 1:03.2 | Okay, okay, and I really need to talk to you |
| 1:07.0 | Because this person in question is typically who I would go to with life's tough conundrums and |
| 1:16.5 | I've got friends. I've got family, but I don't feel like I can confide in any of them |
| 1:22.7 | Because they all know the person in question. Mm-hmm. So if I go to them with my conundrum it will forever color |
| 1:32.5 | There any interactions that we all have together. They're gonna have this in mind and so I just |
| 1:37.9 | For some reason going on a podcast to talk about it |
| 1:41.7 | Like it makes way more sense than confiding in someone I know and trust but the only normal choice |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah, totally |
| 1:49.0 | The most the most sane sane option. So I feel like I have to say how we met because we love telling the story about how we met |
| 1:56.4 | It feels very magical |
| 1:58.3 | We had both just moved to Austin. We are in our early to |
| 2:02.6 | early mid-20s and like a couple of bad asses |
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