the what is love pod
the what is love pod
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I decided to ask everyone I know about love. And with every voice I listen to, I may be getting closer to understanding the question: What is love?IG: thewhatislovepod
The Ex-Evangelical Non-binary Queer Artist
In this episode, the Ex-Evangelical Queer Artist talks about coming of age in Colorado Springs and Florida with Evangelical Missionary parents. We get into how their parents modeled loved for them and their siblings, how God played an ever-present role in how they felt romantic love, and how it affected them growing up. Today, the Ex-Evangelical Queer Artist is happily dating a trans woman, after a string of "stereotypically good looking gay men", and even though love can still feel overwhelm...
Mar 20, 2024
55 min
The Curious, ENM, Ex-People Pleaser
In this episode we get into how some people don't feel certain things in the same way, such as jealousy, and what this may mean for the type of relationship that will work best for different people. The Curious, ENM, Ex-People Pleaser recounts how her upbringing made her feel like success in love and life was only on track when it followed a very rigid structure. Now, as an adult, she has realized that she doesn't isn't actually always attracted to the stereotypical, Disney-prince-type, and t...
Mar 13, 2024
45 min
Special Sunday Episode: Following up with the Friend Who Can't Let Go Of Love - Doing a 180 On Love
In this episode, I catch with the Friend Who Can't Let Go Of Love, and you know what? Thank God! We get into why therapy works, how she finally let go of D and even though it was scary as hell, put herself onto the dating apps (for the first time ever), only to get swooped up almost immediately. Therapy works. Dating apps work (apparently). Love is real. If you have been feeling down about love, this is the episode you need right now.IG: thewhatislovepod
Mar 10, 2024
22 min
The Adventurous Pansexual Drag King
In this episode we talk about how early love is not always the kind of love you want to end up in, how to express yourself, put yourself out there, and to build something with another person outside of yourself. The Adventurous Pansexual Drag King talks about performing, how she met her girlfriend, and how their relationship is blossoming thanks to good, and very, very honest communication.IG: thewhatislovepod
Mar 6, 2024
37 min
Special Sunday Episode: Captain America - The mirror-episode to The Chip-Off-Her-Shoulder Bisexual Love-At-First-Sight Mother of Four
In this episode we get to hear the other side of this week's love story. The Chip-Off-Her-Shoulder Bisexual Love-At-First-Sight Mother of Four's longtime partner, or as we call him, Captain America, answers the same set of questions . Through his lens we see how things aligned from his side, how they challenged each other, broke free of past expectations, and how the expectations of love, no matter what they saw growing up, surpassed what either of them ever imagined could be possible. W...
Mar 3, 2024
32 min
The Chip-Off-Her-Shoulder Bisexual Love-At-First-Sight Mother of Four
In this episode I call up someone I have known since we were high school baddies together. The Chip-Off-Her-Shoulder Bisexual Love-At-First-Sight Mother of Four Children and I talk about how the chip got on her shoulder in the first place, what it was like going to med school as one of the poor kids, to chuck the chip off her shoulder, and fall in love at first sight with her now-husband, and the father of their four children. We talk about how modeling healthy relationships sometimes can ski...
Feb 28, 2024
40 min
Special Sunday Episode: Following up with the Friend Who Is Skeptical Of Love - Break-up Dick Pics and Dr. Pepper STIs
In this episode that is 90% giggles, we catch up with the Friend Who Is Skeptical Of Love and find out why this is still the case. The liberties the men in these stories take is quite frankly flabbergasting, or maybe they're just medium-smart. Either way, it's good that enough time has passed that the Friend Who Is Skeptical Of Love can laugh about it now. IG: thewhatislovepod
Feb 25, 2024
23 min
The Caring, Caring, Caring Poly
In this episode the Caring, Caring, Caring Poly talks about how he was always very polyamorous, but how his college girlfriend was the one who recognized it in him. Now happily married and with a young child, the Caring, Caring, Caring Poly talks about him and his wife balance their lives, the recent end to a relationship he had with someone exhibiting narcissistic behaviors, and how his father, and his secret double-life has always made him choose a life of honesty. IG: thewhatislovepod
Feb 21, 2024
57 min
Special Sunday Episode: Following up with the Friend Who Loves Love - Grieving as a Newlywed
In this episode I catch up with the Friend Who Loves Love. After getting married within the last year, a horrible tragedy occurred just two weeks after "I do". We talk about how she navigated this hurt during her newlywed year, how her and her partner got through it, and how he was there to catch her, even when it wasn't always easy. Sometimes a hurt is so immense, that you don't know how you will come out on the other end, but you can choose who comes with. The Friend Who Loves Love, s...
Feb 18, 2024
23 min
The Southern Gay Scientist
In this episode I speak with someone who grew up in the South, where being gay wasn't an option. Though he felt like something was missing from his life, the Southern Gay Scientist didn't start to realize what it was until he hit college, and a lot of things started to fall into place. Now, in a long committed, and recently-ish open relationship of more than a decade, we talk about opening up without premeditation, how they have navigated this, and how it feels to be able to call someone home...
Feb 14, 2024
48 min
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