What I'd Tell My 25 Year Old Self As a 50 Year Old Divorcee with Christina Ford

Seeing Other People

Ilana Dunn

Relationships, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Social Sciences, Science

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Christina Ford, Author of, “In Search of Mr. Darcy” and writer of the popular blog A-Broad in London, joins us to share her life and thoughts as a divorced mother of two thriving later in her 50s. Christina walks us through two marriages and multiple proposals, saying “I do” when she knew she did not, and what it was like starting over and over and over again. We hear what advice she would give to her 25-year-old self about love, life, and how to find happiness within.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.
0:04.7	Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People.
0:09.9	Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing their stories.
0:16.1	Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even cry along with us as we navigate
0:21.9	the dating scene together. I am smiling right now. I feel like this is going to be such an
0:28.2	amazing conversation that I've been looking forward to for so long. I'm here with such an
0:31.8	incredible woman, Christina Ford, author of In Search of Mr. Darcy, Lessons Learned in the Pursuit
0:37.2	of Happily Ever After. Christina also is the writer of In Search of Mr. Darcy, Lessons Learned in the Pursuit of Happily Ever After.
0:38.7	Christina also is the writer of Abroad in London, an amazing blog, which everybody needs to check out.
0:44.3	Christina Ford, welcome to seeing other people.
0:46.6	Thank you so much. I am absolutely thrilled to be here. Absolutely.
0:50.5	I am so excited. I can already tell this is going to be one of those recordings where my face hurts from smiling after.
0:56.2	Like we were just talking for like three minutes before I hit record. And actually when you were talking about the sunglasses on your dating app profile, I was like, oh, I wish we were recording for this. Every second is just perfect.
1:08.6	Well, you know what? I'm hoping that, you know, we'll laugh so hard that we'll pee just a little. Oh my God, just a little. Those are the best. Those are the best times. So for those who are unfamiliar with you and your book, let's just catch them up to speed on like where you are in your life right now and the elevator pitch of how you got here. Okay, well, very quickly,
1:29.3	as you said, I'm an author of In Search of Mr. Darcy, which is a award-winning memoir,
1:35.6	won five awards so far. And I think what it's doing is it's really resonating with women
1:40.9	of all ages who share thing in common, which, you know, looking for love and wanting
1:47.5	to find love or having your heartbroken. And so I just documented my story through the different
1:56.0	stages of my life that people can relate to. And this is how I got here. I love it. And yeah,
2:05.2	you're totally right. I mean, I think there's so much in your book that even I related to
2:09.9	absolutely. And I thought like, wow, I wish I had heard this when I was 20. I wish I had heard
2:14.7	this when I was 25. And I'm so, that's why I'm so excited to
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