Why Ignorance May Actually Be Bliss ft. Talia Lichtstein

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Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.2 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, I sit down with content creator Talia Lichtstein. Talia and I discuss if monogamy is human nature, how it became the norm, whether non-monogamous or monogamous people are happier, why ignorance is or isn’t bliss, the hardest thing about monogamy, opening up a previous closed relationship, and more. This episode starts with a Q&A where I answer questions about having doubts post break up, staying past 3 months if not official, and emerging back into the dating world.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:06.5	Hey guys, welcome back to We Modern Act Me. This episode today is a doozy.
0:12.4	Talia was an incredible guest and I love how much she challenged me and we had, you know,
0:18.8	our debates. I feel like those are the best kinds of episodes. I was really hesitant to do an
0:24.8	episode on non-monogamous relationships and, you know, ENM, all that stuff, ethical non-monogamy
0:33.8	for anyone wondering because I just learned what that stands for too. And I was really hesitant
0:40.2	about it. And I feel like I had to do some, like, inner conversations of why I'm hesitant to
0:47.4	talk about a subject. I think I just shut it down in my mind. I was like, well, nobody in their
0:53.8	right mind is non-monogamous, you know, like that's not a thing. And nobody wants to hear an
0:59.7	episode on that because it's just not a thing. And anybody that listens to We Modern Act Me
1:05.1	wouldn't want to be non-monogamous because that's preposterous. And I think I've realized
1:11.3	through conversations and also through my own listening of podcasts and taking in of, you know,
1:20.8	different people's content like Esther Perrell and Dan Savage. And by the way, you need to listen
1:28.2	to Dan Savage's episode on Ezra Client's podcast. It's the title of the episode is Dan Savage
1:36.0	on Polyamory, Chosen Family, blah blah blah, you'll find it. Anyway, so it was time. It was time to
1:43.0	have an episode on this subject. And I'm not trying to convince you one way or the other. I
1:51.1	definitely stand in a place where I want to be in a monogamous relationship. But I also never say
1:58.4	never. So I think that it's an interesting thing to be having your ears and eyes open to. I feel
2:06.4	like it's like when, you know, I was one of the last people to get an iPhone because I was like,
2:10.2	I'm obsessed with my blackberry. And I refuse to give into this iPhone bullshit, you know, and
2:18.1	like who's laughing now, right? Like obviously the iPhone was the move. And I feel like with
2:24.1	monogamy for you to be like, absolutely not. I refuse to hear that people want non-monogamous
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