Welcome to strangers from KCW and Radiotopia.

I'm Leah Tau.

And as many of you know, I recently did a series called Love Hurts.

Four episodes, mainly about my own heartbreaks and my struggle to find love again since my fiancé left me.

I went back to some of the guys I dated who turned me down and I asked them why.

I went to some experts.

I got a lot of advice.

But the most amazing input I got was from you guys.

And I want to share some of the messages with you in the hopes that

it'll be helpful to you too, because it was to me. And I also give you an update about my most

recent dating adventure. I got hundreds of emails from you and many voicemails too, and let's just

say there was a range of opinions. Hello. I just

listened to your relationship. Peace where you went out, oh, baby, talking to your old boyfriends that

you had dated, that actually seems a little naive to me that you think that most of the men on those

sites aren't just scouring for sex.

And after three or four dates, when they get sex, they move on.

That's what men do.

I am 60 years old now.

I left home in 1967 when I was a 13-year-old runaway.

And later in life, after being a social worker for years, I became a working girl. I had

had two children, one at 16 and one at 17. I was a single mom. I was raising them. When they got to be

14 and 15 years old, I couldn't keep up as a social worker. I just wasn't making enough money.

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