Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down While Chronically Ill and Disabled
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
I'm joined by Jessica Slice, author of Dateable: Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down While Chronically Ill and Disabled. Diagnosed at 28, Jessica opens up about how her life and dating experiences transformed post-diagnosis. She shares the emotional differences before and after her diagnosis, offering a glimpse into her journey of self-discovery and acceptance.
Jessica delves into the complexities of disclosing her disability to potential partners, discussing when and how much to share. She reflects on how her diagnosis changed her self-view and the time it took to build a healthy relationship with her condition. We also explore how therapy helped her relationships, pushing through discomfort to find safety and understanding in them.
Join us as we discuss the nuances of dating with a chronic illness, the journey to self-acceptance, and finding love and confidence in who you are and what you have to offer.
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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. Thank you're alone out there. Think you're the only one whose ex hooked up with your mom or whose last date |
| 0:22.4 | ended up being a catfish. |
| 0:23.9 | Think again. |
| 0:25.8 | Guys, I'm so excited. |
| 0:27.7 | My heart already feels really full from this episode. |
| 0:31.3 | And Jessica Slice, thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:34.4 | Welcome to seeing other people. |
| 0:36.0 | Oh, thank you for having me. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm so glad we're |
| 0:37.9 | doing this. Yeah, I just mentioned this before we hit record, but as soon as you messaged me, |
| 0:43.3 | I was like, this is what, like, what you were here to talk about today is like the reason why I |
| 0:48.2 | have this podcast and why I do what I do is to have conversations that are not had nearly enough, but are so, so important |
| 0:56.5 | to have. And so I think talking about dating, being chronically ill, being disabled is so important |
| 1:03.0 | because it's everywhere. It's so many people deal with it, whether you're somebody who is |
| 1:08.6 | chronically ill, somebody who is disabled, or you're somebody who goes |
| 1:11.1 | on a date with somebody who is. And we all need to get better at having conversations about it and |
| 1:18.0 | knowing what to say, what not, maybe not to say. And just approaching the subject where this |
| 1:25.1 | shouldn't be like an off limits conversation. This is a conversation that we all |
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