Dating is the laboratory. Identity is the mystery.
Jilted Girl began with a question I couldn't stop asking:
What actually happened?
Not what I hoped happened. Not what I feared happened. Not the story I constructed at two o'clock in the morning because someone didn't text me back. What actually happened?
So, I started looking at the evidence. I thought I was investigating dating. It turns out dating was only where the investigation began.
Jilted Girl is a first-person investigation into the stories we inherit, the stories we tell ourselves, and the strange ways they follow us into love, family, loss, identity, and the choices we make without ever quite knowing why.
There are case files here. Men and messages. Mixed signals and questionable decisions. But there are also childhood stories, old assumptions, unexpected patterns, and moments when the evidence points somewhere I absolutely did not expect.
This isn't a dating advice podcast. There are no gurus, no ten-step plans, and no pretending to have all the answers. We're going to look at what actually happened.
Facts before conclusions.
Curiosity before certainty.
Evidence before assumptions.
And if the evidence changes, so does the working theory.
Sometimes it's funny. Sometimes it's uncomfortable. Sometimes it gets surprisingly personal.
But that's the investigation.
Don't solve mysteries that time will solve for free.
Well... this should be interesting.
Three episodes. One very messy case file. And apparently, one last loose string.
In this wrap-up to The First Removed Nail, Jilted Girl returns to a karaoke bar in Omaha, Nebraska, where one good memory suddenly lands a little differently thirty years later: “That’s my girl.”
What follows isn’t another excavation. It’s the comedown.
A look at what happens when stories you’ve told for years are finally written down, spoken aloud, and handed over to strangers to interpret for themselves.
No neat ending. No healing montage. No manufactured conclusion.Just a little more evidence, a little more understanding, and one final look at the file before Jilted Girl puts it down.Because the dates are next.
God help us.
23 Oct 2026
The First Removed Nail, Part Three: The Little Girl
For two episodes, Jilted Girl has been following the evidence of what happened in the house and what came with her when she left.
Knowing the facts is one thing.
Knowing where they land nearly sixty years later is something else.
In Part Three of The First Removed Nail, the investigation turns toward the little girl at the center of those stories and toward the ways Jilted Girl learned to make painful things tellable, useful, and sometimes even funny.
Eventually, though, examining the little girl from a distance is no longer enough.
Curiosity before certainty.
Evidence before assumptions.
20 Oct 2026
The First Removed Nail, Part Two: What Came With Me
At eighteen, Jilted Girl left the house convinced she was grown. She had a real job, paid her own bills, and knew how to take care of things. What she didn't know was how much of the house had come with her.
In Part Two of The First Removed Nail, JG follows the things she carried into adulthood: competence, responsibility, truth-telling, observation, independence—and the expectation that if she's perceptive enough, she should somehow always know.
But knowing how to survive and knowing how to live aren't necessarily the same thing.
Curiosity before certainty.
Evidence before assumptions.
16 Oct 2026
The First Removed Nail, Part One: The House
Jilted Girl goes back to the house.
A photograph.
A bag of Doritos.
A marriage certificate that had to be wrong.
A sixth-grade teacher.
A 7-Eleven.
The things a child notices, and the things she learns not to question.
In Part One of The First Removed Nail, Jilted Girl begins examining the childhood evidence behind the woman she became: competence, observation, memory, secrecy, and the invisible things we carry with us when we leave home.
Curiosity before certainty.
Evidence before assumptions.
13 Oct 2026
The Currency of Being Useful
What happens when being useful becomes more than something you do and starts becoming how you understand your value?
In this case file, I follow that question backward.
Through childhood, marriage, motherhood, caregiving, and the strange currency of being the person who can always handle it, I start looking at the difference between being needed and being loved.
This isn't a resolution.
It's evidence.
Facts before conclusions.
Curiosity before certainty.
Evidence before assumptions.
9 Oct 2026
Who the Fuck Is Jilted Girl?
So who the fuck is Jilted Girl?
Fair question.
After nearly twenty years away from dating, I came back with questions. About dating. About men. About myself. And apparently, I decided the reasonable thing to do was get a microphone and start investigating.
This is the introduction.
Not the polished version. Not the dating résumé. Just the woman behind the case files—and why I'm here in the first place.
Dating is the laboratory.
Identity is the mystery.
Welcome to Jilted Girl.
7 Oct 2026
Start Here
Before there were case files, there was a question:
What actually happened?
I thought I was investigating dating; then the investigation started looking at me.
Start Here is the beginning of Jilted Girl: the experiment, the evidence, and the question underneath all of it.
Facts before conclusions.
Curiosity before certainty.
Evidence before assumptions.
Well... this should be interesting.
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