August 7th As we wrap our Summer Season and take a station vacation, we’re reflecting on two years (!) of Love Bites Radio and the conversations that have stuck with us. We’ve played with taglines — shifting from Where Dining and Dating Collide to Exploring Why and How We Love — and format, and theme….
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Me & You: 69 Years of Marriage with Pat and Hansine
July 10th Very few couples will ever get to say they’ve made it to sixty-nine years of marriage. As we explore how to find and maintain loving relationships of all sorts here on Love Bites, it seems only fitting that when we have one of those couples at hand, we ask them how they did…
Single Lady Writers in Trump’s America: Me & You with Jax and Jen Doll!
We ask each other questions to see how we’re dealing in some Me & You single lady writer love.
Me and You: Ben and Jax!
June 19th Love Bites Radio explores “why and how we love.” So why do we love the way we love right now? In what ways does that love physically manifest? How are those manifestations different than what they’ve been in the past, and what do we hope to get from love in the future? In the first…
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…
Relationship Goals for Valentine’s Day!
February 13th We just wrapped our series on Power Couples — five couples in hospitality who work alongside each other by day and someone manage to still love each other enough to share a bed together at night. The series came about for deliciously selfish reasons: we both need a little inspiration in the healthy marriage…
Power Couples! Stacy Adimando and Steve Graf
January 23rd Stacy Adimando and Steve Graf are a testament to risking big for love whenever and wherever you find it. She was living in Brooklyn, he in Northern California. But when they met working at a food festival in Portland, Oregon, they both felt something strong enough to give a long-distance relationship a chance….
Power Couples! Joe and Jill Dobias of Joe and MissesDoe
Prepare for laughs and tears, as we explore the first in our Power Couples series with Joe and Jill Dobias of Joe and Misses Doe.
Single and Fabulous! (or, the best ladies who lunch roundtable show ever!)
Six ladies come together to discuss the challenges and triumphs of living the single lady life… for now.
Fostering Healthy Families, with Author and Foster Family Advocate Regina Calcaterra, Esq.
Listen When we discuss family love, we refer to biological families by default. But what about foster family relationships? What does it take for them to succeed, and who suffers the most when they fail? On today’s show, we welcome Regina Calcaterra, the co-author of Girl Unbroken and the memoir Etched in Sand. Regina shares how the…
There Were Never Such Devoted Sisters!
November 28th How do the relationships we form with our siblings shape us as adults? What happens when we don’t identify with the roles our parents assign us within our sibling group? And how do our relationships with our siblings change as our parents age? On today’s show, Jacqueline’s sisters Jessica and Maggie Raposo join…
We Turn To Tarot! With Sasha Graham
October 24th We are all about using every tool out there to build our strongest selves and most loving relationships. So in this magical time of year, when the air and atmosphere are changing once again and we get ready to nestle a bit closer to the earth for the winter, how can we use…
Nanaya Helps You Find Love… With An Algorithm
With Nanaya, finding love can work by the numbers.
Dating Cliches – Screw Em! (Part 2)
August 15th No matter the stage of your relationship (or lack thereof), well-meaning jerks often throw old, tired cliches at you in the guise of friendship: “Go with your gut!” “There are plenty of fish in the sea!” “Never go to sleep angry!” “Tis better to have loved and lost…” “You have to love yourself…
Honing Romantic Intuition with Iris Higgins
July 18th Does “love at first sight” exist? If we break it down to bits and pieces, “love at first sight” is a combination of sexual attraction (hormones), curiosity and the elusive “intuition”, right? It can be our best friend… or our fiercest enemy. It can guide us to real, lasting, life-changing love… or to…
10 Reasons Why Being Single is Awesome!
BLOG POST! Ben and Jax share why being single is AWESOME in celebration of the end of our 2nd season!
Breaking Our Silences and Building Relationships
BLOG POST! What advice do Allie Cashel and Eric Lupinacci of SUFFERING THE SILENCE have to share?
Ladies Who Lyme: Illness and Relationships
MARCH 21 Dating is hard enough, and we all bring baggage into new relationships. For some, baggage comes in the form of an illness that leaves you with little power over how your body moves in the world. On today’s show, Jacqueline and Ben are joined by Allie Cashel and Erica Lupinacci, the co-founders…
The “This Is Why You’re Single” ladies and Co-Host Chef Daniel Holzman!
MARCH 14TH Pondering why you’re single? Well, you could peruse the Self Help section of Barnes and Noble (if you can find one still standing), spending your hard-earned dough on stacks of weepy books about how you’ve gotta Get Out There, Girl! or why life is really better without a spouse. Or you could laugh it off. Which…
The Handsome Actors Show!
MARCH 7TH On today’s show, Jacqueline grills Ben and their guests, Jonathan Wiener and Joel Reuben Ganz, about the challenges of being a professional actor in your thirties, and the strain it puts on all sorts of relationships. How do you commit when you’ll cross the country for months for a good gig? How do the…
Baggage and Young Love with Chef Thiago Silva
February 29th What is baggage, and how responsible are we for losing it before we start a new relationship? On today’s show, we explore the experiences that stay with us from one dating relationship to another, and how we can move on from it. Should we wait until we’re fully ready to immerse ourselves in…
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…
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
Boring 1st Dates and Pastry Chef Paulette!
JANUARY 25TH 2016 After subsequent shows on embracing our imperfections, facing our relationship patterns and moving boldly into the future with that knowledge at hand, it’s time for the team to apply what we’ve learned to our dating lives. So in our first segment, we catch up on our recent dating scenes, and discuss a…
“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…
The Makers of the Film “Offline Dating”
NOVEMBER 30TH, 2015 Sometimes you have sex, sometimes you don’t. Sex can be one thing in your twenties, another in your thirties, and a new thing entirely depending on the person you’re having sex with. So what does sex mean to our hosts right now, today? Jacqueline and Ben share what having (or not having)…
Brother/Sister Duo Will and Julie Horowitz
OCTOBER 26TH, 2015 Last week, Jacqueline published an article on Cosmopolitan about why she doesn’t want kids, and how that doesn’t make her any less of a woman or partner. So on today’s episode, we delve into how kids play into the dating scene: when do you bring up that you do or don’t want them?…
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…
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