Love Language

About Love Language

Plug into a heart-to-heart you didn’t know you needed. Two lifelong best friends Anahita from India and Jesselina from Nepal, take their everyday phone calls online—and you're invited! A podcast where personal meets political, each episode peels back another layer of life's drama, exploring the deeper meanings behind their everyday experiences. The BFFs, now in LA and New York, dive into the politics of sex, culture, society, identity, and everything in between. Through the messiness, drama, and heartbreak, they find comfort in each other’s stories, which is now their "Love Language."

Publisher

Love Language

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Feb 2025

Latest episode

26 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

19 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Jun 2026

   Why Is Everyone Obsessed With Off Campus! Is 2000s TV Finally Making a Comeback?

   Everyone is watching Off Campus. Your millennial colleague, your younger cousin, that friend who swore she was done with college dramas. Anahita and Jesselina have a theory. Tracing back their years in boarding school and the unlikely education that happens in the in-between spaces. When you're told you're not good at something you've put your heart into. When Cosmopolitan is contraband. When there's one television, the seniors have the remote, and you squeeze yourself onto a shelf just to catch an episode of One Tree Hill and quietly begin imagining a life far outside those walls. And it turns out those shows were doing more work than anyone gave them credit for, which is exactly why shows like Off Campus and Heated Rivalry feel refreshing and important right now, not just as good television but as a genuine counter-offer to a culture that has lately been writing young people with so much spite and so little empathy. The mean girl trope, the toxic bad boy, more stereotypes and less character arc. A light-hearted conversation that will make you glow with nostalgia, and quietly hope that the future is possibly coming around, to a good rom-com, to better storytelling, and maybe, just maybe, to the idea that 2000s nostalgia is having its moment for a reason. PS: Don't miss Jesselina's Hindustani classical music audition from 2007. Gandhari, a Monologue and Anahita’s Stardom (02:43) "You're Not an Actor But You Could Be a Narrator" (06:23) Jesselina’s Hindustani Classical Music Audition That Cannot Be Undone (08:15) Cosmopolitan, Mills and Boon and the Sex Education Our Mothers Started (11:16) The Hot Pink Flip Phone Heist (14:51) Friday Nights, Plastic Chairs and the Senior Who Always Had the Remote (16:32) One Tree Hill, OC, Friends: The Shows That Raised Us (19:32) The Delayed Consumer Theory: A Psycho-social Analysis (29:00) Off Campus and Heated Rivalry - The Radical Act of Writing Young People Well (32:38) Friends Got Us Through Our Darkest Times (49:52) Humor Is Intelligence and We Will Die on This Hill (48:10)

2. 

   5 Jun 2026

   Bride and Prejudice - Navigating the Institution of a South Asian Marriage

   South Asian weddings carry warmth, family, and fanfare. But behind the celebration, a quieter crisis of dowry deaths, women choosing to end their lives rather than endure abuse, and a social architecture rarely built for women to not just survive, but thrive. Anahita and Jesselina unpack what it really means to marry or consider marrying into a South Asian family. Are women being prepared for the marriage, or just the wedding? Are we shying away from the hard conversations? And how much time with a partner is actually enough, whether love, arranged, or love cum arranged. The Business Family Blueprint in South Asia (02:36) The Pessimism Built Into Marriage (07:10) The Calculated Risk of Any Marriage (08:46) "Love Cum Arranged" (11:32) Marriage Is a Stool - How Do We Build the Limbs? (13:40) Love Marriage as Reckless Passion - The Big South Asian Myth (15:32) Gold, Grandparents, and Running Away (18:02) Dowry By Any Other Name: Class and the Sanitization of a Crime (20:00) Twisha Sharma (27:31) Have You Built Your Ammunition for a Patriarchal World Before Marriage? (30:56) Are You Ready for the Wedding or the Marriage? (36:29) Biological Clock v. Risk Clock (42:50) Women's Enmeshed Identity Post-Marriage (47:56) Parallel Lives of Jesso and Ana (54:29) Takeaway: Marry a Friend (55:37) Wizard Liz and the Visa Trap (58:24)

3. 

   27 Mar 2026

   A Dummy's Guide to Surviving Long Distance Relationships

   What does it really take to survive a long-distance relationship without losing your mind, your identity, or your will to live? In this episode, Anahita and Jesselina get honest about the emotional chaos, quiet resilience, and very specific kind of character-building that comes with loving someone across cities, countries, and time zones. From cheating paranoia and mismatched communication styles to control, individuality, marriage, and the politics of not shrinking yourself for love, they unpack the things long-distance relationships tend to expose rather than create. This is not a neat guide, and definitely not an expert one, but it is full of lived experience, contradictions, and the occasional hard-earned insight. Call it a dummy’s guide, call it a survival manual, call it two women oversharing for an hour, but this one is for anyone who has ever tried to hold on to love across distance and come out with themselves intact. (00:35) We’ve been MIA, and Ana is graduating (05:39) Why people fear long-distance relationships so much (06:14) Is long distance really the problem, or something else? (08:14) Why women should not give up dreams just to avoid distance (12:16) Cheating fears, trust, and why control guarantees nothing (14:24) Live locations, passwords, and the illusion of security (19:39) Navigating Different communication styles (26:22) Marriage, career choices, and being open to distance again (30:06) Are couples who cannot do long distance fundamentally weaker? (38:05) Marriage, surnames, and the politics of losing yourself (47:01) How to keep the spark, when you are so far away? (53:52) Should every relationship survive a long-distance test? (59:29) Ambition, movement, and not fearing distance (1:01:06) Long distance is not ideal, but it is not always the villain

4. 

   23 Jan 2026

   Episode 16: Where the hell have the Rom-Coms gone?

   What if romance on screen once held our hands through feeling and belonging, and now lets go? In this episode, we linger over the slow disappearance of the romantic comedy in Bollywood and Hollywood, tracing what has been lost along the way. From starry-eyed classics to today’s hardened heroes, we ask how cinema stopped believing in love as something soft, sincere, and transformative. Moving between nostalgia and critique, Anahita and Jesselina unpack the rise of hyper-masculinity, the flattening of emotional vulnerability, and what that shift reveals about our cultural moment. This conversation drifts through old films that shaped a generation of romantics and lands firmly in the present, questioning why heartfelt storytelling now feels so radical. It is full of yearning for better love stories and for a cinematic language that dares to make us feel again. (00:00) New Year reflections and our grandma hobbies (03:12) Where did all the rom-coms go? (09:03) Perfect actors and sanitized scripts (16:41) Pyar Dosti Hai: how storytelling shaped social dynamics (22:53) Early-2000s journalist women leads and their influence on women in media today (23:46) How young people learned about desire and intimacy through rom-coms (28:42) Missing young adult and teen stories fueling hyper-consumerism (39:01) Rom-com gaps filled by hyper-masculine, nationalistic cinema (45:09) The future of romantic storytelling: what needs to change

5. 

   28 Nov 2025

   30, Flirty and Thriving

   Hosts Jesselina and Anahita explore the humorous and unexpected aspects of turning 30, discussing health habits, lessons learned, and navigating friendships in this new decade.

6. 

   7 Nov 2025

   Eat, Pray, Exclude: The Politics of Food

   Hosts Jesselina Rana and Anahita Dhakal examine the politics of food in South Asia, revealing how eating habits reflect identity, power dynamics, and cultural hierarchies in this episode.

7. 

   10 Oct 2025

   All About BDE ...The Big Daughter Energy!

   The hosts explore the phenomenon of "Big Daughter Energy," dissecting the traits, responsibilities, and emotional burdens often associated with eldest daughters as they navigate family dynamics and personal relationships.

8. 

   19 Sept 2025

   Bonus Episode: Break Ke Baad

   Hosts Anahita and Jesselina reflect on their first six months of podcasting, discussing personal growth, friendship dynamics, and future plans for season two in this interview episode.

9. 

   4 Jul 2025

   Trash TV Shows, Doomscrolling & Why Brain Rot Might Be Good for Us

   Hosts Anahita and Jesselina explore the appeal of trash TV and doomscrolling, questioning whether consuming "mindless" content provides unexpected emotional and social benefits.

10. 

    20 Jun 2025

    No Woman’s Land: Living in Cities Not Built for Us

    Podcast hosts Jesselina and Anahita examine how urban planning often overlooks women's needs, creating unsafe and exclusionary environments that limit their freedom and opportunities in cities.

11. 

    6 Jun 2025

    Band, Budget, Baraat: Confessions of a Millennial Bride

    Anahita N.'s experience planning a millennial South Asian wedding reveals budgeting challenges, decor trends, and cultural expectations within the wedding industry, offering insights for future brides.

12. 

    23 May 2025

    The Invisible Burden: We Inherit, Carry and Ignore in the Care Economy

    Hosts Anahita and Jesselina examine the often-ignored care economy through a South Asian lens, revealing how unpaid labor impacts women and advocating for its proper valuation in this interview episode.

13. 

    10 May 2025

    Bonus Episode: LoLa Couch Chats

    Jesselina has landed in LA for some well-deserved rest and recovery, and the duo is using this reunion to thoughtfully dive into your questions. In this episode, they reflect on the milestones and missteps of their 17-year friendship—exploring childhood experiences in boarding school that shaped their identities, teenage challenges that deepened their bond, and the complex realities of adulthood that continue to redefine their connection. Join them for honest conversations, heartfelt insights, and the kind of openness that lifelong friends share. Clickable Timestamps: (00:50) Why this bonus episode? (03:24) How (and when) we became friends (23:21) Meet our families (31:05) Unpacking "the big fight"

14. 

    25 Apr 2025

    The Art of Recentering Friendships by Decentering Relationships

    Once burnt, twice shy—Anahita and Jesselina dive into the often-overlooked truth that friendships aren’t just a social accessory; they’re emotional lifelines. In a world that teaches us to orbit around romantic love, they explore what it means to recentre friendships as vital to identity, intimacy, and growth. Through honest reflections on marriage, breakups, shifting identities, and cultural expectations, they unpack the quiet ways adulthood can erode friendships—and how intentional connection can rebuild them. With humor, heart, and hard-won lessons, this episode is a reminder that your friendships aren’t secondary—they’re soul-defining. And sometimes, choosing your friends with the same devotion we’re taught to give romantic partners might just be the most loving thing you do for yourself. Clickable Time Stamps: (0:40)  6th Episode Already?! Reflecting on the Ride So Far (2:20)  The Bride’s Mom Said It Best: Don’t Lose Your Girlfriends (4:10)  When Marriage Feels Like No Man’s Land, Friendship Is Home (5:30)  The Rookie Mistake of making one Relationship your whole world (8:00)  Friendships aren't a backup plan for romantic love, silly! (13:00)  How to show up for a friend stuck in a Toxic Relationship (16:00)  He maybe McDreamy, but you are the Sun!! (23:00)  Are We Too Dependent on Romance? The Western Individualism Trap (24:40)  Diagnosing the 'Must Bring My Partner Everywhere' Syndrome (30:40)  Your Best Friends = Your Relationship Reality Check (39:35)  My friends brought cake, why settle for breadcrumbs? (44:00)  Petition to Normalize Moving for Friendships and..World Peace! (46:30)  Why Friendship Breakups Hurt Just as Much as Romantic Ones (50:00)  In a World That Centers Romance, Choose Your Friends On Purpose

15. 

    11 Apr 2025

    Andrew Tate, Manosphere and Boys raised by the Wild Wild Web

    After a weekend binge of Netflix’s latest chartbuster Adolescence, Anahita and Jesselina dive deep into the toxic layers of the manosphere, the algorithm-driven rage economy, and how young boys—our brothers, classmates, future men—are being shaped in silence. Between Andrew Tate’s influence and the seductive pull of digital echo chambers, we ask: who’s really raising our boys? From personal upbringing to cultural blind spots, we explore how family, society, and the Wild, Wild Web are colliding to create a generation caught in confusion—craving identity, seeking belonging, and finding it in all the wrong places. Clickable Time Stamps (0:44) 2 months anniversary, is LOLA still a situationship? (1:14) Watching Adolescence on Netflix: Wow or Mehh..? (7:45) Why are the Brits showing Adolescence in schools? (9:36) Drip Drip Radicalisation of Boys in Manosphere (12:00) Social Media Algorithms are watching the kids..all the time! (13:46)  Andrew Tate and the Seduction of Toxic Masculinity (19:40)   Schools are producing tech bros…irresponsibly.. (21:42) Checks and Balances of growing up with brothers in the house (28:04) Exploring the theme of Nature vs Nurture in Gender Structures (33:33) Breaking through the Taboos one conversation at a time (35:36) Is it women’s responsibility to ensure men are included in feminist discourse? (39:22) Creating equal accountability for Boys and Girls

16. 

    28 Mar 2025

    The Fault in Our Stars? Blame it on Mercury Retrograde

    Jesselina, a fiery Scorpio, and Anahita, a determined Capricorn, dive deep into the world of astrology and the occult. As they navigate their own differences in belief systems, they explore how horoscopes have wormed their way into everything—from Hindu households to TikTok algorithms. How much does your star sign really shape your life? Friendship, dating, and beyond... Add a sprinkle of capitalism, a dash of AI, a pinch of socio-economic uncertainty, stirred by the rise of godmen in South Asia, and you've got yourself the ultimate modern-day cosmic cocktail. Clickable Time Stamps: (0:25) Mercury in Retrograde! (02:58) Astrology: A “Soft Science”? (06:12) Childhood Tryst with Sun Signs (11:00) What’s Your Raashi? Ana’s Passion for the Signs (16:41) Horoscopes & Confirmation Bias: The Barnum Effect (24:49) Socio-Economic Uncertainty and the Rise of Horoscope Consumption (27:38) Is Horoscope a Form of Therapy Speak? (30:11) Gemini Men and Aquarius Men (37:30) Astro Expert Ana: Your Weekly Horoscope (42:38) Capitalism, AI, and Horoscopes (45:04) How Far is Too Far? Horoscopes, Tarot, and the Occult

17. 

    14 Mar 2025

    Opening Pandora's Box of Body Shame

    Tune in to a very cathartic conversation on body shame in South Asia and beyond. Jesselina and Anahita open up about their journey with body image issues, PCOS, and how their childhood has shaped some of their most important mental battles. From learning to accept and love yourself to understanding the realities of colonialism, class, and gender on what we eat, how we eat, and how it builds our bodies and minds. Clickable Time Stamps (00:56) Letters to Our Younger Selves (02:20) What’s Your Roman Empire? (06:49) Body Shaming in School (20:07) Thin or Fat: Women Are Constantly Made to Think About Their Bodies in South Asia (24:30) Colonialism: Epigenetics of Weight Gain (30:40) Women Often Eat Last and Eat Less in South Asia (32:29) Class Structures and Obesity: A Correlation in the U.S (35:21) A Journey to Body Objectivity (44:03) Are Women Thinking More About Their Bodies Than Their Rights?

18. 

    28 Feb 2025

    Digital Dating: Rings, Flings, or Just Mindless Swiping?

    Anahita and Jesselina invite you into their world of digital dating — 8 years of rings, flings, and everything in between. Pre-COVID, dating apps were all the rage, but recently? The swipes have slowed, and stocks are sinking. As new types of apps pop up, the big question looms: Is technology to blame, or have men and women just lost interest in dating altogether? (01:43) Apps to the Altar (5:00) My Mom Was on Tinder! (9:00) Apps Are Exhausting and Addictive (14:11) The Commodification of Love (18:48) Are the Apps Democratic? (21:12) Straight Dating App Stocks Are Falling (27:51) The Metaverse's Failure (29:06) The Fertility Paradox (30:54) Dating Outside Your Political Beliefs? (35:16) The Battle of the Sexes? (37:42) Dating Outside Your Bubble of Privilege

19. 

    14 Feb 2025

    In Our #LoLa Era

    Join Jesselina and Anahita as they bring you this heartfelt conversation. The girlies open up about their personal stories, navigating the highs of their teen years and the challenges of their 20s. Through candid discussions, they explore what it means to be a woman in today’s complex world, all while embracing the power of friendship rooted in girlhood. With open communication—their love language (#LoLa)—they reflect on love, career, and the many layers of life as they make sense of it all.

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6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

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