The One That Got Away

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For years, Nancy could picture her ideal partner. She wanted someone who would make her laugh, who would love her son, and who would make her feel confident and empowered. When she met Noa, he checked all the boxes. Everything she thought other people made up about love suddenly came true. But…this perfect love didn’t last forever.

Today we hear from both Nancy and Noa as they perform an autopsy of sorts on their relationship and why it didn’t work.

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0:00.0	Um, how are you?
0:04.8	Most people answer that question with fine or good.
0:10.8	But obviously it's not always fine and it's usually not even that good.
0:15.0	This is a podcast that asks people to be honest about their pain,
0:21.0	to just be honest about how they really feel, about the hard
0:27.0	parts of life. And guess what? It's complicated. I'm Nora McInerney. And this is terrible. Thanks for asking.
0:56.1	Break-up stories are like fingerprints or snowflakes. Even if no two are exactly alike, They generally resemble one another from a distance. We know the size and shape. We understand what we're looking at.
1:10.0	But put any broken heart under a microscope and you will see the hairline cracks that turned into fault lines.
1:15.4	The conversations that ended in crying,
1:18.4	the differences that could not be reconciled,
1:21.9	the ways the puzzle just couldn't fit together. It hurts to break up. It
1:29.1	hurts to divorce, it hurts to lose a love, a relationship, to lose both the version of life that you had found,
1:39.3	and the potential versions that the two of you were going to discover or create together.
1:47.5	One of my personal favorite breakup songs is by Paul Simon, it's Graceland, and he wrote the beautiful lines,
1:56.0	losing love is like a window in your heart.
2:00.0	Everybody sees you're blown apart.
2:03.0	Everyone can see the wind blow.
2:06.0	And I love that song for the melody and also for the imagery.
2:11.0	Because who among us, who has loved, has not also found themselves with a window in
2:18.3	their chest, the curtains parting with the pain that blows through.
2:24.0	In this episode you will hear from two people, Noah and Nancy.
2:36.0	They're a former couple who were willing to look back and give their relationship a public autopsy.
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