"Second Chances Can Change Your Life"
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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UPDATE: Tyler proposed to Nikki while skiing in Colorado just days after recording this episode!
I'm joined by Nikki, a 28-year-old woman who shares her story of reconnecting with her now-fiancé years after their first few dates. We hear how their relationship unfolded and led to a few years of long distance followed by moving in together. We discuss how things change when you move in with your partner, why it's important to keep learning about each other and growing together.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey guys, it's Alana and you're listening to seeing other people unfiltered. |
| 0:09.8 | It's Thursday, so that means real-life daters are coming on to share their real, sometimes shocking, and always unfiltered experiences. |
| 0:17.7 | Think you're alone out there? |
| 0:18.9 | Think you're the only one whose ex hooked up with your mom or whose last date ended up being a catfish? Think again. Think you're alone out there? Think you're the only one whose ex hooked up with your mom |
| 0:21.4 | or whose last date ended up being a catfish? Think again. My name is Nikki. I'm 28 years old. I live in |
| 0:29.0 | Cambridge, Massachusetts. I'm a researcher in community and public health. And I'm here to talk about second chances. |
| 0:39.6 | Ooh, I love that that is how you chose to phrase it because for so many reasons. First of all, |
| 0:46.1 | I think the topic of second chances in general is very like taboo. It's like a whole controversial |
| 0:52.6 | question of like, do people deserve second |
| 0:55.9 | chances? Should we give second chances? Are we weak for giving someone a second chance? Should I |
| 1:00.6 | accept this chance or, you know, would it have worked out the first time around if it were meant |
| 1:05.8 | to? So I love that. What is your current relationship status? I'm currently in a long-term relationship. I've been with my boyfriend now for almost three years. And we are a second-chance couple. We met initially in 2018 at the Jane in New York. |
| 1:29.2 | Just on a good old Jane. |
| 1:31.7 | Very classy, very classy. |
| 1:34.6 | And we like saw each other for a few dates back when we had both just graduated from |
| 1:41.1 | college and it fizzled out. He moved to Denmark. And then I went on |
| 1:47.9 | with my life. And then right before I moved to Boston, we rematched on Hinge. Those first few dates, |
| 1:55.7 | what were they like? Like, was there big chemistry? Did you go on those dates and tell your friends after, like, |
| 2:02.3 | yeah, like I really could see a future with this person? Or was it just like, yeah, like it was fine. |
| 2:07.0 | Who knows? Like, if I hear from him, I'll hear from him. No, I was like obsessed with him. |
| 2:11.6 | I like, so for context, we met like I had just gone out of a pretty serious relationship. I'd been with my boyfriend from college for two years and then out of nowhere got dumped. And I was like transitioning to a really new job, really high pressure. And I worked in consulting. And on my first night out, like being newly single, my best friend from high school |
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