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

S14E4: Dating a Workaholic

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

Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick

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

4.7910 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

With thin boundaries between work and life nowadays, we're diving into the line between career-oriented and work-obsessed as we chat with Caitlin about dating a workaholic. We discuss the boundaries that can be put in place to balance various aspects of life, why it's hard to always come second to someone's job, and how you can find a middle ground to let both your career and relationship flourish. TW: We finish up our discussion about fertility / egg freezing in the intro of this episode briefly. Skip this section if this is triggering in any way. 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 Murad Skincare: Go to Murad.com and enter the code DATEABLE for 20% off and free shipping for orders of $60 or more ZocDoc: Download the app at zocdoc.com/dateable and download the ZocDoc app for free to search for a top-rated doctor 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.

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Former dating coach turned dating sociologist.

0:22.0

You also hear from my co-host and producer Julie Craft Chick

0:25.2

as we explore this crazy dateable world.

0:28.1

Hey friends, welcome to another episode of the Dateable

0:34.4

Podcast where we dig into the ins and outs of modern dating but also the

0:40.0

wise, hows, and What's of People's Behavior.

0:43.1

We're on it.

0:43.9

Yes, we have an episode that's coming soon

0:46.1

of why the what needs to be the question, not the why.

0:49.5

So we'll leave it at that.

0:50.6

We'll let you all be intrigued for a few weeks, but it's a good one. We always have good one so. It's true. What else is new? I'm saying I have a favorite episode you know the usual.

1:00.0

Every week. Well this week's episode is completely relatable for so many people. It's about dating a workaholic or maybe you are a workaholic dating because all of us are have been trying to make work and life and dating all work together the last few years,

1:16.5

especially a lot of us working from home, which I've heard that makes you work even more because

1:21.4

there's no separation of home and work.

1:24.5

So I found this episode especially relevant.

1:28.4

Yeah, someone actually asked me earlier, has this always been a thing, or do you think it's new for the

1:34.1

pandemic and I think dating someone that's a workaholic or being a workaholic has

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