I'm Claire Fallon and I'm Emma Gray.

And this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed recap podcast about reality dating

shows like The Bachelor and other pop culture that makes us laugh, cry, and curse the patriarchy.

We can't live with these shows and we can't live without them, but we can break down every

juicy moment and unpack all the weird messages these shows send us about love, sex, and dating.

Welcome to Love to See It, a podcast about reality TV dating crossovers and very, very dramatic

podcasts. It's 2023 and we are ready to ease back into Bachelor Nation with some light gossip

and pointed media criticism before we turn our attention to the upcoming Bachelor season.

I honestly, I needed this transition period. Yeah, I kind of like it. Like we normally dive

right back into the Bachelor as soon as January starts and now we're sort of like

dabbling our toes in, we're slowly immersing up to the ankle and then the shin.

And this is just for my mental health. I think I'm going to be ready. Exactly, exactly.

And I like to be able to have this episode where we just catch up with all the news we missed

while we were celebrating the holidays. Yeah, I personally was trying not to pay attention

to what anyone was doing for the holidays while I was I basically kept forgetting where my phone was

in the house and many hours were cast. A little bit of a mess between looking at it. It was

amazing. But I'm ready. I caught up. I dug back through and a lot of stuff happened. A lot of

our Bachelor Nation people are taking steps forward in their lives. They're dating. They're having

babies. They're getting engaged or getting married. Let's do kind of a rapid fire. Go through all

the little updates in people's relationship statuses that happened over the last couple months.

Yeah. New Year's Eve was a big evening for Bachelor Cosa, by guess. Everyone loves to take

the opportunity to like go out with a new flame and post photos of them together or to like hard

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