What Dating Burnout Is Actually Doing to Your Brain — w/ Dr. Guy Winch, Part 2
Love Life With Matthew Hussey
Matthew Hussey
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Dating can burn you out . . . especially when you’ve been rejected, ghosted, or stuck in that exhausting loop where nothing ever turns into something real. In Part 2 of my conversation with clinical psychologist Guy Winch, we get into how to stop showing up in “don’t mess this up!” mode, how to shift from avoiding loss to actually going for connection, and how to date in a way that protects your energy.
We also tackle modern dating burnout—why it turns into cynicism, how to spot the patterns keeping you stuck, the “coffee date” debate, the “burned haystack” method, and real red flags vs. over-filtering.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to Love Life. Today is following on from last week's incredibly |
| 0:10.0 | popular episode where we interviewed Guy Wynch. Guy Wynch is a clinical psychologist, a TED speaker, |
| 0:17.4 | author of the book Emotional First Aid, and now his new book, Mind Over Grind. Last |
| 0:23.4 | week we talked about work overwhelm and burnout. This week, we are talking about overwhelm and |
| 0:29.5 | burnout in dating. I ask Guy some incredibly difficult questions. I present him with some of the more |
| 0:36.1 | dubious dating content I'm seeing out there in the |
| 0:39.1 | world today. And we get him answering questions in a way that actually we don't see him answering |
| 0:45.4 | questions in other places. So this is a really unique interview with Guy Wynch. I'm excited for you |
| 0:50.9 | to hear it. Check it out and let me know what you think. As always, you can email us podcast at Matthew Hussey.com. |
| 1:02.6 | I want to switch gears to all of the ways that the lessons in your book, |
| 1:07.8 | which is focused at least around, to me it's all transferable, but it's |
| 1:14.4 | focused around the kind of overwhelm and stress and burnout that can come from a working life. |
| 1:20.6 | I want to position those lessons towards people's love lives. I'm really curious to know |
| 1:27.4 | what your answers will be in these |
| 1:28.9 | different areas. Before we go into that, I just want to remind everyone of the book that we are |
| 1:34.7 | talking about is called Mind Overgrind, How to Break Free When Work Hijacks Your Life. I've been |
| 1:42.4 | loving reading this book. I've been both a fan of Guy for many years |
| 1:48.3 | and Guy's work and his content and also benefited hugely personally from working from Guy and |
| 1:55.4 | feel grateful also to call you a friend today. It's been a real education over the years. And so anytime you have a new book |
| 2:03.4 | coming out, I'm first in line to want to read it and to look at what all of that material |
| 2:09.1 | that I've heard for years looks like, marshalled in one place. So I know that if you enjoy my |
| 2:15.9 | content and if you enjoy listening to the Love Life podcast, |
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