Season 10 Episode 4: Too Old to Date

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

Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick

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

4.7 • 910 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Tune in as we talk with Brad about the time pressure of dating as you get older – even for men. We discuss the challenges of dating in your 30’s when everyone else is settling down, how expectations change as you age, and balancing having a life plan vs. seeing how it all plays out. Follow us @dateablepodcast. Check out our website for more content, live show dates, and merchandise. Thank you to our partners for this episode: Flutter: Download this new dating app that only works on Sundays with matches and messages expiring at midnight to move the convo offline. Currently available in the Bay area (but expanding soon): https://joinflutter.app.link/dateable Generation Tux: Get 10% off the entire groom’s party at generationtux.com/dateable with the code DATEABLE 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 Huffington Post calls
0:04.8	one of the top 10 podcasts about love and sex. On each episode we'll talk to real daters about everything
0:11.2	from sex parties to sex droughts, date fails to diaper fetishes,
0:15.0	and first moves to first loves.
0:16.8	I'm your host, U.S.U.
0:18.3	Former dating coach turned dating sociologist.
0:21.0	You also hear from my co-host and producer Julie Craftchick as we explore this crazy
0:26.0	dateable world.
0:27.0	Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Datable, a show all about modern dating.
0:37.0	Confessions of two podcasters who referred in an episode from a long time ago and it's such a good episode.
0:43.8	So we did do this episode with Brad a while back.
0:46.8	You know what though when I was editing it?
0:49.0	I'm like, this was such a good episode.
0:51.2	I'm so glad it's like coming out to the world it might be a year
0:54.5	ago we're usually pretty timely on episodes this one though the topic is
0:58.8	relevant anytime right yeah not like it needs to be to you guys tomorrow or a major trend is going to change right?
1:05.2	We're basically talking about age and feeling too old to date and the fact we talked to Brad who is a man I feel like we have this perception that it's only a woman right
1:16.2	We've a biological clock but he was like anyone that lies and doesn't feel like age factors in is kidding themselves.
1:23.6	Yeah, exactly.
1:24.8	I think age plays into so much of it because now with online day day day,
1:30.8	you also see that your choices go down as you age. I mean you see people
1:35.3	that are like flat out putting like 39. Yeah then in their profile like actually
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