Resort Romance: Part 1

The Dating Detectives

Dear Media

True Crime, 448526, Comedy, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In this gripping two-part episode, our hosts dive into Laura’s shocking and emotional journey of love, deception, and heartbreak. Laura shares her whirlwind romance with a charming resort worker that spiraled into a tangled web of manipulation, financial exploitation, and emotional abuse.

Trigger Warnings: This episode includes discussions about financial abuse, emotional abuse, suicidal ideation, and revenge porn. Listener discretion is advised.

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0:00.0	The following program contains names, places, and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized for the purposes of protection and safety.
0:08.7	The following program is provided for entertainment purposes only, and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular individuals or circumstances.
0:21.4	If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship,
0:24.2	please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-723 for support.
0:40.3	Happy dating detectives Monday.
0:41.8	Hi, everybody.
0:43.9	We have no grown-up today.
0:48.4	Normally, Molly, our producer, is here, and she's like monitoring everything and running the back office.
0:50.3	And now it's just me and Hannah.
0:51.5	And by me and Hannah, I mean Hannah.
0:53.8	No, you're doing great.
0:55.8	Did we have an extra five minutes of troubleshooting? Yes, we did. We don't know what's going on. It's fine. So there's no grownups
1:00.5	in the room today. I may or may not be wearing pants. We're not sure. You wear pants when we
1:05.0	record with grownups in the room. Don't lie to them. It makes no difference. Right.
1:10.5	Anyway, so happy dating detectives Monday. We have a,
1:14.8	we have a two-parter. Yeah, it's a two-parter. And we have a guest today that I am just, I think
1:23.8	that so many of us will relate to. But also also I feel like it was so easy, even for me
1:32.0	to say, what the heck? Why did she do that? And I think that that might be something that we
1:38.4	often think about what someone else does. But I just want you guys to remember that these are
1:42.6	experiences that are not ours and you never know what you do in that situation.
1:46.5	So my, my heart is just, anyways, I can't wait for you to meet her.
1:51.3	No, I want to add to what you're saying because that's so good.
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