"My 6 Year Relationship Ended at 31"
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
I'm joined by Maria, a 33 year old living in San Diego who opens up about ending her six year relationship and starting over at the age of 31. She shares how she and her ex grew apart over the years and how she ultimately decided the relationship was over. We hear how she navigated moving out, coparenting their dog, and how she processed the breakup. Maria walks us through what it was like to date as a newly single 31 year old while all of her friends were in relationships. She gifts us some hilarious dating stories and fails, and tells us how she met her now-partner.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey guys, it's Alana and you're listening to seeing other people unfiltered. |
| 0:09.9 | It's Thursday, so that means real-life daters are coming on to share their real, sometimes shocking, and always unfiltered experiences. |
| 0:17.8 | Think you're alone out there? |
| 0:19.0 | Think you're the only one whose ex hooked up with your mom |
| 0:21.5 | or whose last date ended up being a catfish? Think again. My name's Maria. I live in San Diego. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm 33. And I'm here to talk about leaving a long-term relationship in my early 30s to basically |
| 0:35.5 | start all over. I, at the sec, first of all, like, I'm obsessed with |
| 0:40.4 | you and like I, no matter what you wanted to talk about, I would have had you on regardless. |
| 0:45.9 | But the second you mentioned that to me, I was like, yes, yes, yes, this is something that |
| 0:50.7 | absolutely needs to be talked about because everybody who's listening, |
| 0:55.1 | not everybody, but one of the most common thing is people open up to me about or express to me |
| 1:00.9 | or ask about is like being in your early 30s and being single or that fear of like, |
| 1:06.4 | well, if I leave this relationship, I'm starting all over. |
| 1:08.9 | And it doesn't matter at what age, that's scary, |
| 1:11.1 | but especially in your early 30s, I feel like there's such a stigma around it. And so I'm, first of all, so proud of you and, like, we'll get into the details of it, which guys, like, by the way, I don't know the details. So I'm going to learn along the way. But I just imagine that that's hard and scary at any age, but especially in your early |
| 1:30.0 | 30s as I imagine you were attending all these weddings and all of your friends were like settling |
| 1:34.3 | down and all that. Yeah, 100%. And my friends, it was, I had a big, I actually went to Syracuse |
| 1:39.9 | too. So I had a huge group of girlfriends that moved to New York afterwards, just like we all do. |
| 1:44.7 | And they all found their people so early, like in their 20s, like early 20s. And so not only I was, |
| 1:51.7 | I had one other single friend who like didn't even really care about being in a relationship. |
| 1:55.4 | And then all of my other friends were like married, starting to have babies. And it was truly like |
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