Love Hurts – One Year Later

Strangers

Lea Thau

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

One year ago today, July 31st, Lea went to interview Robert, a guy she’d dated, about why he’d turned her down. That became the first of a series of episodes called “Love Hurts,” where Lea investigated why she was having trouble finding love again in the four years since she found herself pregnant and alone.

The original Love Hurts series had four epsiodesm which were dowloaded millions of times and was the most popular series Lea has ever created. Only the first of those episodes is available here, the others are for only paying subscribers (who also get access to the entire Strangers archive, ad-free). Join for $5 at Leasplace.substack.com or Leasplace.supercast.com and support my work!

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0:00.0	Welcome to strangers from KCW and Radiotopia. I'm Leah Tao.
0:05.0	And today, it is one year ago exactly that I went to a guy I dated who turned me down, and I asked him this.
0:15.0	If you feel ambushed by this question,
0:18.0	skip it.
0:19.0	Sure.
0:20.0	But why do you think you and I didn't connect?
0:21.5	Like, I'm trying to understand, like, what goes wrong for me?
0:25.6	His name was Robert, and that interview was the beginning of a whole series of episodes called
0:30.5	Love Hurts, where I tried to figure out why I'd been single for four years since my son's father
0:35.5	left me by asking different questions of different
0:38.3	dudes. I dated mostly from online.
0:43.0	I did not feel in any way mistreated by you, but at the same time I was like, why does this
0:48.8	keep happening to me? Is it just timing or is there also something that I'm projecting that's
0:53.7	not making it happen? Like, I think after my ex and there also something that I'm projecting that's not making it happen?
0:56.0	Like I think after my ex and I split up, I was so wounded.
1:00.0	There was a lot of betrayal involved.
1:02.0	And so part of me was like maybe I'm projecting this sort of anxious thing around it or seem desperate or maybe there's something fundamentally like broken about me.
1:11.1	Do you think?
1:14.5	So that was a year ago.
1:16.5	And this next bit is me last week,
1:19.8	recording myself on the last night of what you might call a modern family vacation.
1:25.6	And before I play this next bit, I just want to say that I'm embarrassed
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