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Jillian on Love

Is It Embarrassing to Have a Boyfriend?

Jillian on Love

Daylight Media

Society & Culture, Sexuality, Mental Health, Relationships, Health & Fitness

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Is it really “embarrassing” to have a boyfriend? In this episode, Jillian unpacks the viral Vogue UK article and the cultural shift that’s convincing women to hide their relationships. She explores the deeper shadow dynamics at play — jealousy, shrinking ourselves to belong, and the fear of being judged if a relationship ends. Jillian makes a powerful case for owning your joy, celebrating healthy love, and refusing to dim your light for anyone. This episode is sponsored by Olipop. http://drinkolipop.com/JILLIAN Download Jillian’s FREE limerence workbook, http://jillianturecki.com/workbook  Join my community and membership, The Conscious Woman Submit your relationship question for Jillian at https://forms.gle/FbtgkGTwfnrjvHwW7  Order Jillian's book It Begins with You: The 9 Hard Truths About Love That Will Change Your Life at https://www.jillianturecki.com/book ~~ Follow the show on: Instagram: @jillianonlove Email the show at hello@jillianonlove.com  Subscribe to Jillian on Love+ on Apple Podcasts or Patreon ~~ Follow Jillian Turecki on: Instagram: @jillianturecki TikTok: @jillian.turecki X: @JillianTurecki Visit her website at jillianturecki.com ~~ Jillian On Love is brought to you by QCODE. To advertise on the show, contact us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Is it embarrassing to have a boyfriend?

0:08.0

So there's this article, a Vogue UK article, that was called, Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing now?

0:17.2

And I've been seeing it all over social media, and I saw a lot of people, a lot of women post about and do memes about it, about how it's embarrassing to have a boyfriend, that it's much better to be single.

0:28.9

And what the writer was saying was that women who a few years ago might have been posting a lot of photos of them and their boyfriend and kind of

0:40.7

celebrating their relationship and really showing that relationship to the world.

0:46.5

Now they are not doing that even if they are in a relationship because of some superstition that they will get some

0:56.2

sort of evil eye literally evil I superstitious evil I meaning other women are going to look at

1:04.3

her and be jealous and then that jealousy is going to somehow impact her life and her happiness. And so now they're actually,

1:15.6

if they post a photo of her and her boyfriend, like some people are even blurring out his face.

1:22.6

Based on the article, some women are saying it's just like, it's not really cool to do that anymore.

1:27.4

It's more cool to do that anymore it's more

1:28.0

cool to be like single and empowered and like i said don't want insight any sort of evil eye or

1:35.3

jealousy and and so and then there's also some women who said that she had a really large following

1:43.5

and then when she finally got into a relationship, because she was single and she

1:48.0

would post about that and she would write about that, and then she got into a relationship

1:52.5

and talked about it and showed her boyfriend, and she lost a bunch of followers because

1:56.9

of that.

1:58.5

So all this prompted this writer to write about it because it is actually

2:04.4

pretty interesting. And I have a lot to say about this. And so here I go. So a lot of people are

2:12.8

interpreting this as empowering, that it's embarrassing to have a boyfriend and it's empowering to

2:19.7

even talk about it, that it's embarrassing to have a boyfriend.

2:25.6

And that it all comes down to having a boyfriend invites some kind of judgment, it invites

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