On our most recent double-episode, we covered breakups because of chronic illness. Here, writer Katrina Blank shares a bit more of the story she tells us in Part II about living with Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease. This has been slightly edited for length and clarity. Why did you like Joey to begin with? The day…
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Endings #4: Breakups About Chronic Illness (…and sex and babies)
March 20th On today’s show — the first of a two-part episode during our series on Endings — Jacqueline speaks with two women who recently underwent breakups they attribute to their chronic illnesses: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and Interstitial Cystitis. They both reached out to J after reading her Cosmopolitan essay, How I Learned…
The Art of Breaking Up
March 13th On today’s show, we discussed the fine art of breaking up with writer and fellow Heritage host Sari Kamin. And as is our new break-the-tension tactic, we split the midde of the show with a game: Breakup Mad Libs. Combing the internet for a source so that I didn’t have to expend precious creativity…
Endings #3: Breaking Up is Hard To Do, with Sari Kamin
March 13th “When at the age of 31-yrs old my boyfriend of five years broke up with me I was deeply heartbroken but also stunned that I was no longer on the path of getting engaged, getting married, and having children by the age of 35. That was the course that I had seen so…
Endings #1: Friendship Through Divorce, with Suzanne Riss and Jill Sockwell
February 27th What’s a life experience you’re holding onto that you wish you could emotionally shut the door on? What’s holding you back? Who has helped guide you through growth the most? What positive new tactics or tools did you pick up to battle the tough stuff along the way? And do you wish the…
Our Playlist and Menu for Heartache and Heartbreak
BLOG POST! What do we want to listen to and eat in hoards when we’re down?
Unrequited Love with Author Lisa A. Phillips
FEBRUARY 1ST, 2015 We’ve all experienced some sort of unrequited love; pining over someone who doesn’t quite realize the romantic possibilities we can so clearly see. But what happens when affection turns into obsession? When our desires have so much control over us that we can’t see the world clearly? On today’s show, we talk…
Jacqueline Speaks: All the Feelings
BLOG POST! Jacqueline speaks on “ALL THE FEELINGS”.
Ben Speaks: The Examined Life
(The following is Ben’s response to our Why We Didn’t Work series. Listen to his episode here, find more about the project here, and read Jacqueline’s response here.) “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates Yeah, those ancient Greeks knew some shit. I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve been in therapy for a long…
“Why We Didn’t Work”
BLOG POST! What we learned about WHY WE DIDN’T WORK
“Why We Didn’t Work” with Diana Gasperoni
JANUARY 18TH, 2016 When you were in your last relationship, were you always honest with your feelings? Did you relay them openly to your partner? What about while breaking up? Has the story about why you broke up changed with some and hindsight, and could you be more honest with that ex now than maybe…
“Why Didn’t We Work?” with Vienna Pharaon
JANUARY 11TH, 2016 “Breaking up is hard to do,” goes the old Neil Sedaka song. But when you’ve got a radio show about establishing new and long-lasting relationships, sometimes you’ve got to push past any lingering “what ifs?” and get to the root of the issue. So on today’s show, Ben presents a list of…
Erin Fairbanks Talks Really Hard Relationships
DECEMBER 7TH, 2015 We’re all for crazy love. The kind that kisses and consumes you. The kind the flames quickly and dies, and the kind that burns on embers indefinitely. There is no right kind of way to love (well, stalking and dangerous stuff aside, of course). Loving is loving, and we wanna hear stories…
Jacqueline Speaks: “I’m Single in My Mid-Thirties. Am I Becoming a Cliche?”
Let me get some disclaimers out of the way here. I have a very good life. I live comfortably in the city I love. I have a job that’s challenging and fulfilling. I call some of the best people in the world my friends. I have a supportive family. I’ve been loved by some very,…
Editor Jesse Hirsch Talks Food Work and Break Ups
NOVEMBER 23RD, 2015 This week, Jacqueline swaps her general positivity for crank (as she wrote recently for BlogHer). So Ben grills her about dates canceling the day of, how ghosting is socially acceptable now, and how singletons keep their cool with friend after friend pairs off and disappears. What can we be doing to date…
Shit! This show’s gonna affect our dating lives.
Pretty early on, we realized that our dating lives were going to be a major focus of the show. But we didn’t quite anticipate how the show was going to affect our dating lives. We’re pushing for full disclosure on Love Bites; being honest, vulnerable, brave and open regarding what we share with our listeners. But some of…
Ben Speaks: Haunted by Endings
In our first BEN SPEAKS blog post, Ben contemplates why, at some level, he fears commitment. Because, as he says, “it always ends.”
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