Widowed*

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

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

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Grief comes with so much judgment. Everybody is sure that there's a right way to do it, and only for a certain length of time. If our grief doesn’t neatly fit into a category, we worry that it’s illegitimate. Erin knows this judgment very well. She’s a widow … or is she? Support our new independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So you give him all of those ultimatums, you lay it all out and there are sponsors basically.
0:12.6	Don't let the door hit you on the ass.
0:15.9	I'm Nora McNearny and this is Terrible Thanks for Asking.
0:23.6	If you've done any online dating in the past, I don't know, 15 years or so, you know that
0:29.0	it can be rough.
0:32.0	It can be unpleasant.
0:34.0	It can just be difficult.
0:35.2	I've dabbled a little bit in this arena, but really all dating is like walking around
0:42.9	the world like that little bird from the children's book, are you my mother?
0:47.2	But instead asking people, are you my person?
0:51.6	In 2009, Erin found herself dipping her toes into the murky water that is the online dating
0:57.8	pool.
0:59.6	At this point, Erin was a few years out from leaving an abusive marriage and was feeling
1:03.9	hopeful about the future.
1:06.0	An online dating was new to her, but she had heard good things.
1:11.2	But the reality, the reality of online dating, it looked a little different.
1:17.0	Oh, boy, I got a lot of weird matches.
1:22.2	A guy who had, he was a teacher and he had, I think, 23 cats.
1:26.9	And then I got a lot of cops.
1:28.2	I'm sorry.
1:29.2	We're going to pause right there.
1:30.6	He had, how many cats?
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