S12E10: Is Marriage the Be All End All?

Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships

Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick

Social Sciences, Sexuality, Science, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.7 • 910 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

We have been told that marriage is the end game...maybe...but also maybe not. We're hearing from our guest Alice about exiting her marriage and never being happier. We discuss when it's time to stop trying to make a relationship work, rediscovering yourself and your sex life, and how to define your own rules when it comes to co-parenting and running your life. Follow us @dateablepodcast. Check out our website for more content, virtual live show dates, and merch. Join the Sounding Board at https://www.dateablepodcast.com/soundingboard Thank you to our partners for this episode: Rothy's: Check out all the amazing shoes, bags, and masks available right now at Rothys.com/Dateable BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month of online therapy at betterhelp.com/dateable with the code DATEABLE Kensington’s newest title DRIVEN by Rebecca Zanetti.You can find DRIVEN wherever books are sold or visit kensingtonbooks.com Cover art Photography Credit: Larry Wong #lwongphoto Dateable is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at frolic.media/podcasts Follow us @dateablepodcast. Check out our website for more content, virtual live show dates, and merch. Join the Sounding Board at https://www.dateablepodcast.com/soundingboard Thank you to our partners for this episode: BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month of online therapy at betterhelp.com/dateable with the code DATEABLE Apostrophe: Get $15 off your first visit with a board-certified dermatologist with the code DATEABLE at apostrophe.com/dateable Cover art Photography Credit: Larry Wong #lwongphoto Dateable is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at frolic.media/podcasts WE WROTE A BOOK! HOW TO BE DATEABLE (Simon & Schuster) is available now: https://howtobedateable.com/ Want to remove distractions from your dates? Download Brick and get 10% off at https://www.getbrick.app/DATEABLE Our Sponsors: * Avocado Green Mattress: Check out their mattress and furniture sale: https://avocadogreenmattress.com/DATEABLE * Get Rain of Shadows and Endings wherever books are sold or at Kensington Publishing https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Quince: Get free shipping and 365 day returns at https://quince.com/dateable * Ruggable: Get 10% off your first order, sitewide, with promo code DATEABLE at https://ruggable.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	The dateable podcast is an insider's look into modern dating that the
0:04.8	Huffington Post calls one of the top 10 podcasts about love and sex. On each
0:09.5	episode we'll talk to real daters about everything from sex parties to sex droughts, date fails to diaper
0:15.3	fetishes, and first moves to first loves.
0:17.8	I'm your host, U.S.U.
0:19.4	Former dating coach turned dating sociologist.
0:22.0	You also hear from my co-host and producer Julie Kraft chick
0:25.2	as we explore this crazy dateable world.
0:28.1	Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of
0:34.8	dateable where we dig into the wise of people's behavior when it comes to
0:39.6	modern dating last week's episode was fire. Complete fire! People love Jeff Harry and his whole
0:48.9	spiel about why we need to bring play back. Making dating fun again. Making
0:54.4	dating fun again. Yes, I think there is such an overwhelming response and I think
0:58.8	that's really showing that this is actually a problem for a lot of people,
1:03.4	that it doesn't feel fun, it feels like a chore.
1:06.2	Such a great reminder, because people treat dating like
1:10.9	they treat dating like this employer who's mistreating them and we're all like disgruntled
1:16.6	employees and that's not the case.
1:19.1	Dating should be so much fun.
1:20.5	If you haven't listened to that episode or if you want to listen to it again, we highly encourage you to do that.
1:25.5	I feel like I listen to it three times now and each time I have a different idea, my creative juices just start flowing and it just inspires me to do something different that day.
1:36.0	Well totally I think it's great like if you're in a relationship to add that playful and fun and adventure and I think this year is a reminder that all we really have is the present day.
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