Taking Breaks & Being Friends with Exes
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
I’m joined by Leslie Grant, host of Interstates and Heartbreak, to discuss taking breaks & staying in touch with exes. We chat about whether or not taking a break can work, what situations would allow for it to work, and when a break is just a precursor to a breakup. We discuss giving someone a second chance, criteria for being friends with an ex, whether or not you should text your ex on their birthday, and tips for dating in LA.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:07.9 | Hey guys, it's Lana and welcome back for another episode of seeing other people. |
| 0:13.1 | I don't know if anybody else is feeling like this, but to me, it seems like right now is |
| 0:19.0 | the storm before the calm of the holiday season. |
| 0:22.7 | Like, I literally am in a three-week span. I'm at week three of three, to be clear, we're almost |
| 0:29.3 | through, of no-joke 21 recordings. And part of that is my own doing because I have a lot of |
| 0:36.1 | traveling coming up, but it's like everybody's |
| 0:39.2 | just trying to get everything done now. You know, we have, we just had Halloween. We have Thanksgiving |
| 0:45.8 | coming up. People just want to get things done. And it's really freaking stressful. Like, oh my goodness, |
| 0:52.3 | I'm having such a hard time balancing, you know, work and my sanity. |
| 0:59.6 | To the point where I've started doing this thing where I'm calling it, this thing, it's not an |
| 1:04.2 | official thing, but in order to kind of cope with all of it, I'm trying to do two phone-free |
| 1:09.9 | activities a day in order to just like stay a little |
| 1:13.3 | sane and not spend all of my time working and on social media. I've been, you know, going to a |
| 1:20.5 | Pilates class or a workout class, not because I want to work out, but literally because it forces me to |
| 1:25.3 | not be on my phone. Like I will leave the phone in the locker room or leave it at my apartment, which actually isn't good because I need to, like, check in with my barcode. So I don't think they're a fan of when I leave it at my apartment, but it's just like 45 minutes of not looking at my phone. And it's been so nice. Other phone-free activities that I've been doing, I've gotten |
| 1:44.4 | back into coloring, my adult coloring book obsession, loving that. Even like I've been reading a lot more. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm currently reading. Carrie Soto is back. The new Taylor Jenkins reads book. Taylor, |
| 1:56.7 | Jake and read? Taylor Jenkins read. Reads? Read? I i don't know but i've been reading it um and enjoying |
| 2:02.2 | that and even like i'm literally considering watching a show a phone free activity where i just |
| 2:10.1 | leave my phone in the other room or leave my phone in the charger and i'm fully watching the show i don't |
| 2:14.3 | care if i'm looking at another screen i just need to be not on my phone. So that's kind of where I'm at of, you know, trying to stay sane and prioritize my mental health |
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