The Horrors of Dating: Surviving Narcissists, Red Flags & Emotional Vampires Part 1
The Lo Life
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5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Lo sits down with writer, actress, and creator Rory Uphold for a refreshingly honest and wildly relatable conversation about the horrors of dating. The chemistry is instant as the two LA natives compared notes on narcissists, energy vampires, dating down, and the emotional jump scares we never saw coming.
Rory shares how telling the truth about her toxic and confusing relationships didn’t break her, it actually healed her. And in doing so, she helped thousands of women feel less alone in their own romantic nightmares.
But instead of leaving listeners in the darkness, this episode offers the opposite: hope. It’s vulnerable, funny, cathartic, and inspiring — especially for anyone who has ever questioned their worth, lost themselves in love, or is trying to believe in dating again.
This is a true survival guide for the heart with humor, honesty, and a whole lot of “oh my god, same” moments.
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| 0:00.0 | We keep it moving, yeah, we keep it moving, yeah, we're going. |
| 0:07.7 | We keep it moving, yeah, we're too. |
| 0:10.3 | Hola, bienvenitos. |
| 0:11.6 | Boniorno, my gente. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome one and all to a brand spanking new episode. |
| 0:16.5 | Fresh out the kitchen, we've been cooking in La Cucina, a delicious, flavorful, bold and spicy |
| 0:21.9 | fajita platter. Flaming hot fajitas over here. A new episode of the low-life podcast is ready for |
| 0:28.0 | you to feast on. I'm your flaming hot and spicy. Seasonally depressed, white wine drinking, |
| 0:34.4 | tuck your finger licking, ice coffee sipping, pumpkin spice latte, craven, |
| 0:39.5 | hot mess of a host, Lorenzo Bonn. |
| 0:44.2 | And I am so happy to be here with you today. |
| 0:46.5 | There is no place I'd rather be than right here in this moment with you right now. |
| 0:51.3 | I hope you're having a beautiful day and a great week so far and you're |
| 0:54.6 | feeling good. But if you're feeling like absolute shit right now, if you're exhausted, |
| 1:00.5 | stressed out, feeling so anxious, depressed, if you're not feeling like the best version of |
| 1:05.5 | yourself right now, please know you are not alone in those feelings. I've been talking to my |
| 1:09.3 | friends and family. I know so many people, myself included, are going through it right now, especially with what's going on in the world. |
| 1:17.5 | Oh, it's a shit show. It's depressing. You could feel hopeless, helpless, and just exhausted by everything happening and social media doesn't help. |
| 1:26.3 | And so, again, if you were going through it, |
| 1:28.0 | please know, one, that you are not alone and two, that you're going to be okay. I promise you're |
| 1:34.2 | going to get through this. And I am so grateful. I'm so freaking thankful that we have our coven, |
| 1:41.0 | our cult, especially right now, given the state of our country, the United |
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