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The Dating Detectives

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True Crime, 448526, Comedy, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

In this emotional episode of The Dating Detectives, Mackenzie and Hanna welcome Liv, a guest whose story is as heartbreaking as it is harrowing. Liv opens up about the devastating loss of her partner Andrew, navigating grief while raising their daughter, and how her vulnerability made her a target for Caleb—a man who seemed supportive but turned out to be a master manipulator.

Trigger Warnings: This episode discusses grief, financial and emotional abuse, infidelity, and manipulation.

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0:00.0	The following program contains names, places, and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized for the purposes of protection and safety.
0:08.8	The following program is provided for entertainment purposes only, and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular individuals or circumstances.
0:21.3	If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship,
0:24.2	please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-723 for support.
0:41.1	Happy Monday, Sloothies.
0:43.4	Hi, Slooties. How's everybody doing?
0:52.5	We hope you're doing great. I'm excited for, well, I always am excited and then I feel like shit for saying that because it's never like exciting to talk about these stories.
0:54.2	But I'm always excited to bring you another story because of how they always, I don't know, everybody's story always has an
0:58.7	impact at least on one person. And so I like that community. Also, you think you're going to get
1:03.9	used to this stuff and you really do not. I mean, this story has a lot of twists and turns.
1:13.1	And I was shocked.
1:19.3	Liv is our guest today. It's a one-parter. We're going to bring it all in at one time.
1:25.3	But, oh, she's been through so much. Yeah, you guys are going to love Olivia. There's a lot of warnings we want to give you. There's murder, death, drugs,
1:28.8	financial and physical abuse. There's children involved. And we- Like custody stuff. Yeah,
1:34.7	custody battle. And, you know, it's part of the story. So we don't want to cut it out,
1:38.8	but we also try to like warn you guys a little bit. Yeah. Just prepare. Little uncomfy in those areas. She's just been through a lot.
1:46.2	We'll pass it on to live, but really quickly, book club, our Patreon book club is going to meet on
1:52.6	January 26th. The book was so good. I cannot wait. Oh, it's like, we read it in like a day.
1:59.6	It's called Little Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier. And most of you who have already read it are like, couldn't put it down. So like warning, don't start reading it at a night where you have to wake up early the next day because you will stay up all night. Yeah. And you'll be like, wait, what? No. And you'll just keep reading it. So that one, I'm really excited to talk about that one. There's a lot. There's some, there's some dog fishing in that one. There's some, it kind of took me on a ride. I was like, wait, there's some things that I didn't expect. So I think it's going to be, it's a really good read. So, and then we'll come together for that on the 26th, which is next week.
2:34.1	Yes, I believe it is.
2:36.6	So you've got time.
2:38.0	This coming weekend.
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