Dive into dating, sex, and relationships with two newly-single Gen X pals Duckie and Andie (pseudonyms borrowed from the classic 80s movie Pretty In Pink) as they dish the dirt and delights of dating and how it’s radically transformed since the 80s and 90s. These graduates from the school of life tackle topics like pandemic booty-calls, threesomes, gender fluidity, sex positivity, polyamory, and kink culture while offering honest, unsolicited advice on everything to do with life and love in these modern times.
Do you know your Love Language? Do you have to match with people who speak your love language? What do you do when the person you’re into has a different love language than you? Andie and Duckie speak different love languages and together share their best tips for loving and communicating with partners.
Show links
The original book about the 5 Love Language
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Languages-Secret-that-Lasts/dp/080241270X
Understanding the 5 languages (in case you don’t want to do the book)
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/the-5-love-languages-explained
How to deal if you and your partner don’t speak the same language
https://www.bustle.com/articles/161169-how-to-cope-when-you-your-partner-have-different-love-languages
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23 Nov 2021
QUICKIE: FWB
What if you catch the feels for your Friend With Benefits (FWB) and want to turn them into a "real" relationship? Also: Andie thinks there's really no such thing as a FWB.
16 Nov 2021
Just One Dick Forever?!?
After a long-term relationship ends, some of us fear commitment. Divorce forever shatters the illusion of “til death do us part” so is fear of commitment simply a more realistic perspective on love and relationships or are we just wounded and suffering from commitment phobia? Is it possible to be in a committed relationship and still maintain autonomy and freedom? What even qualifies as is long-term, post-divorce? Andie and Duckie tackle their own commitment issues and explore the fact that post-divorce they’ve both gravitated towards relationship structures that are not strictly monogamous. Has this helped? Can ethically non-monogamous or monogamish relationships be considered commitments?
Show Links
WebMD’s definition of Commitment Phobia (https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/commitment-phobia-symptoms-signs) in case you think you have a real phobia!
https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/commitment-phobia-symptoms-signs
Alternatives to Monogamy (https://sexualbeing.org/blog/8-relationship-alternatives-to-monogamy/) in case the idea of only being with one person freaks you out but you still find yourself wanting to develop beyond casually dating someone.
https://sexualbeing.org/blog/8-relationship-alternatives-to-monogamy/
The quote Andie shared: “The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person–without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.” – Osho (This guy was the founder of the Rajneesh Movement and was a problematic mystic with a lot of radical ideas BUT his thoughts about love (https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1432084-being-in-love-how-to-love-with-awareness-and-relate-without-fear) are pretty cool.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1432084-being-in-love-how-to-love-with-awareness-and-relate-without-fear
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