"My Transcontinental Movie-Worthy Romance"
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I'm joined by a woman who shares her experience of a transformative long-distance relationship spanning continents between Sweden and the US. She opens up about how they met and started their relationship, the challenges and joys of maintaining a connection across such distances, their journey over three years, and how the relationship eventually came to an end. She also discusses the valuable lessons she learned from this unique experience. Join us as she candidly reflects on love, distance, and personal growth.
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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. Hi, I'm anonymous. I'm here to talk about |
| 0:27.7 | my dating history and specifically a long distance relationship that I was in for a while. |
| 0:35.3 | And this is a uniquely long distance relationship that you're going to talk about |
| 0:40.2 | because it is very long distance. And I know living in Manhattan, some people will joke like, |
| 0:47.1 | oh, the Upper East Side to Brooklyn is long distance. But this was different. Yes. So he lived in Sweden. So it was very long distance. Like different continents, |
| 0:58.3 | six hour time difference, all that. Wow. Okay. I have so many questions. Why don't you take me back to |
| 1:06.2 | where it all began, how you met and what was going on in your life at the point where you met? |
| 1:12.7 | Sure. I was 25 at the time, and so it was a little while ago. And I had just kind of started my |
| 1:21.8 | career. I'm a social worker, you know, just working my first job. And I was still kind of in the face of my life where I'd |
| 1:29.1 | like to go out most weekend nights. And I just went to a local bar on the Upper East Side and met |
| 1:35.0 | this guy from Sweden. What was it like when you met him? Like, did you think that, oh, like, |
| 1:42.1 | there's some attraction here or some pole, or was it just like casual |
| 1:46.0 | and you thought you'd never talk to him again? Like, what was that night like? So we were celebrating |
| 1:50.6 | my friend's birthday. I think it was my friend's 25th birthday. And we were at a bar and this bar |
| 1:55.8 | in particular, it's like mostly a dance floor and loud music. So I literally met him on the dance floor and we danced a little bit |
| 2:03.8 | it was really crazy I didn't even know he was from Sweden right away I mean he had the you know like |
| 2:08.5 | the Aryan features like the blonde hair and the blue eyes but I had no idea I mean we weren't even |
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