Should I Hold Out For Long Distance To End, Or Let Go And Enjoy Singledom? Help!
Dear Shandy
Sharleen Joynt & Andy Levine
4.9 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
It's Caller Day! Today we're joined by caller Marcela. Marcela struggles between waiting for the light at the end of the long distance relationship tunnel, versus wanting to live life to the fullest as a single and unattached woman. Where's the line between holding out for something good and heeding FOMO's siren song? Listen on for the Shandy take!
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| 0:00.0 | How do you guys maintain your senses of selves while not being long distance? |
| 0:06.3 | Like I don't have any sense of self anymore. Really? |
| 0:09.6 | I have a podcast called deer shandy. My name doesn't even exist anymore |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome back to deer shandy listeners. Hello Andy. Hello. How are you? I'm good |
| 0:26.2 | Like you're delicious cream sickle dress. It really creams a cold. What a flavor is that? |
| 0:32.2 | It's the best. You know cream sickle right away. It's never you're never like, Oh, what flavor is that? |
| 0:36.1 | It's it's always you know it's cream sick. Oh, it's crazy. It's true. |
| 0:41.0 | Today's caller day. We love caller day. Yeah. I feel like if we could just do caller day always |
| 0:46.9 | That's what we would do. We are joined today by a neighbor because this caller is just over in Brooklyn |
| 0:53.5 | Just across the water and her name is Marcella Marcella. Thank you so much for joining us |
| 0:58.6 | Thank you guys for having me. I'm so excited to be here spending your Friday night with us |
| 1:03.1 | It means extra when it's Friday |
| 1:05.9 | So we already know your name and where you are do you mind giving us your age the age of the partner in question and your story please? |
| 1:15.5 | Yeah, so I'm 24 and my boyfriend is 26 |
| 1:19.2 | So the story starts last summer |
| 1:23.6 | For context of where me and my boyfriend were when we met I had been in like a two-year-ish long relationship with someone from college |
| 1:31.6 | We tried to make it work out of college. It was a cluster of fuck as those things usually are and my boyfriend |
| 1:38.2 | Who's a little older had also been with someone from college? |
| 1:40.4 | They were together for five years and lived together and she broke up with him in December 2019 |
| 1:46.7 | And then we met in July of 2020 |
| 1:51.4 | So we both were kind of fresh-ish out of long-term relationships |
| 1:56.5 | We met on hinge. He's the first person I've ever met in person on hinge and I'm so in love with this person |
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