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Hey guys, it's Alana and you're listening to seeing other people unfiltered.

It's Thursday, so that means real-life daters are coming on to share their real, sometimes shocking, and always unfiltered experiences.

Think you're alone out there?

Think you're the only one whose ex hooked up with your mom or whose last date ended up being a catfish? Think again.

My name is Leor and I am a social worker here in the city. I'm here to talk about some of the work that I do as a social worker.

I work with individuals who have been impacted by intimate partner violence.

So working on coping skills around trauma, anxiety, etc.

And I'm also here to talk about my own dating experience in New York City and how I've created kind of a more positive mindset for myself around dating

because I feel like there's a lot of negative attitudes

towards it. And I think that can make it a lot harder to find the person you're looking for.

Very relatable. Everyone listening is nodding their heads right now. Question, intimate partner

violence. That's a term I've never heard before. Is that the new term for domestic violence?

Is that what people are trying to like

push forward that we should say now essentially um both are okay um but intimate partner violence

is the more progressive terminology around it um to really account for all of what it represents.

Yeah, because it's not usually if there is like physical abuse,

there's also probably emotional abuse, possibly financial, sexual, and so on and so forth.

Yeah, it's actually interesting because like you mentioned, first, physical violence,

and that is typically what people think of when they think of intimate partner or domestic violence but

really more times than not there's emotional financial and sexual abuse that

happens prior to physical abuse what made you want to work in this field it's a

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