Dating & Relationship Podcasts
If you’re tired of listening to True Crime podcasts that have you worried you’re going to get murdered by your neighbor, it might be time to switch up your podcast game. How about some funny, insightful listens that improve your relationship and dating life? Here are a few, courtest of the NY Times, that might amp up your dating life.
Couples Therapy:
In each episode, [standup comedian Naomi Ekperigin and the writer Andy Beckerman] hilariously riff on minutiae from their daily lives together, answer questions from listeners in need of romantic advice and welcome guests like Michelle Buteau, Rachel Bloom and Bowen Yang for candid conversations about relationships, heartbreak and everything in between.
‘Why Oh Why’
Opting to use her own [breakup] as “a storytelling device,” [Andrea] Silenzi shares her confusion and heartbreak as she chronicles the indignities (and occasional joys) of app-based dating. Though it sometimes blurs the lines between fact and fiction, “Why Oh Why” is full of on-the-ground dispatches that give it a compelling sense of both time and place
‘Seeing Other People’
Ilana Dunn, the host of “Seeing Other People” who used to work for the dating app Hinge, doesn’t present herself as an authority. Instead, she approaches the subject with a “we’re all in this together” vibe reminiscent of a wise older sister. New episodes are released twice each week. The Tuesday installments carry interviews with coaches, therapists and other experts. But the Thursday episodes are the heart of the show, featuring candid (and often anonymous) stories from real daters, some of them wild (“He Wasn’t Ghosting Me, He Was in a Coma”) and others touchingly vulnerable.
‘Excuse My Grandma’
When Kim Murstein moved in with her family during quarantine, [she] soon discovered that her grandmother Gail had many opinions about her approach to romance. Brutally honest wisdom is at the core of “Excuse My Grandma,” in which the pair dig into dating topics old and new (from evergreen woes like how to make a long-distance relationship work to more modern phenomena like ghosting and sexting).
