Quickie w/ Yue: Why We Need To Be A Bit Delulu When It Comes To Love
Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships
Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick
4.7 • 910 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My hot take is that we should be more delusional this year. |
| 0:03.6 | Hey, everyone, it's UA dropping in for a quickie episode. |
| 0:07.0 | I really feel like dating has become too rational. |
| 0:10.3 | We've become grounded, self-aware. |
| 0:12.7 | We've become very realistic in the way we date. |
| 0:15.6 | But that's also what makes it not so fun anymore. |
| 0:19.1 | We've removed the magic. |
| 0:24.2 | Dating now feels flat, a little joyless, and over-processed. So let's get more delusional. And that's why I'm wearing this shirt. Do you all see |
| 0:30.4 | it? If you're on YouTube, you see it. Do you get it? Do you need a minute to get it? If you're not |
| 0:36.2 | on YouTube, maybe this will entice you to check us out on |
| 0:39.0 | YouTube. But this is where I'm going to live this year in Dulululand. I've just got the keys to |
| 0:45.4 | an apartment in Delululand. I signed a one-year lease. I want to live here because I'm done |
| 0:51.4 | being so rational all the time. We're all so rational. And being rational is not a |
| 0:56.6 | bad thing. But if we are only living in rationality, it means we're only living in the past, |
| 1:02.9 | right? Think about it. Being rational means you are rationalizing based on lived experiences, |
| 1:09.3 | but you only know what you know. So beyond rationality |
| 1:13.1 | is the unknown. That's where the fun and excitement happens. But that's also where you need to be |
| 1:19.4 | a little delusional to live in this fantasy, in this world that you haven't lived in yet. |
| 1:25.2 | So I guess we can look at all the data. We can look at historical |
| 1:29.8 | evidence. We can look at patterns. We've done that already. But let's get rid of the logic, |
| 1:36.9 | you know, even for a second. Let's just pause there. And then just think about like, |
| 1:41.2 | I want to be surprised again. I believe and I'm confident that the |
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