Podcasts about Love

26 episodes

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  • 1

    Saoirse Ronan ("Little Women") reads an essay about how a language barrier impacts the relationship between a young woman and an Iraqi doctor. This is an encore presentation.

  • 2

    The Weight Of Love

    Death, Sex & Money

    42:46 | Dec 15th, 2021

    1 recommendation

    Your stories about how navigating weight and body size inside a relationship has sometimes made your partnerships stronger...and sometimes broken them apart.  Are you subscribed to our newsletter? You...Show More

  • 3

    Is it really that bad to marry my cousin?

    Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi

    25:05 | Nov 29th, 2021

    2 recommendations

    Charles Darwin. Edgar Allen Poe. Albert Einstein. What do all of these men have in common? Yes, they’ve made major contributions to science and literature. Buuuut they also all married their first cou...Show More

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    Whaaaaaa!!!

  • 4

    A nun, a priest and their vows

    Life Changing

    28:26 | Nov 24th, 2021

    9 recommendations

    Catherine Butler-Burns decided to become a nun aged 17. It was a shock to her parents, they weren’t especially religious by Irish standards of the time and until then Catherine had been having a livel...Show More

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    You go girl! What a love story. Could be a movie.

  • 5

    Hotter on Bumble, Part 1

    Why Oh Why

    30:47 | Apr 14th, 2017

    3 recommendations

    Bumble is held up as Silicon Valley's gift to single women. Finally, a dating app made with us in mind. But after you download the app and start swiping, does it live up to the reputation? In this epi...Show More

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    Whaaaaa...apparently people are on Bumble not because Bumble is "feminist" or "women make the first move", but that people are just hotter on there. Such a fascinating investigation!

  • 6

    The Living Room

    Love and Radio

    22:53 | Mar 6th, 2015

    38 recommendations

    Diane's new neighbors across the way never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califo...Show More

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    You’ll get a lump in your throat and tears welling in your eyes after you hear this episode. Oh the fragility of life.

  • 7

    Episode 19: The Wolves

    This is Love

    41:28 | Apr 1st, 2020

    17 recommendations

    We go searching for wolves in Yellowstone, and learn about the dramatic and surprisingly relatable relationship between a powerful young wolf and the small, elderly wolf who had raised him. We’re tryi...Show More

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    This is the love story version of the wolves, which were also featured in "Criminal". Honestly the sweetest story about wolves and their families. Also, booooo to the sister-in-law!

  • 8

    When Shigeru Yabu was a little boy he made a new friend in an unexpected place. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we looked at each other, eye to eye.” Shigeru Yabu’s book is...Show More

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    A beautiful and touching story about a Japanese boy's relationship with a magpie bird that he found in internment camp.

  • 9

    Two strangers who don't speak the same language meet in Haiti and sparks fly... through Google Translate. Plus, untranslatable words of love, and a pair of robots navigating a tumultuous affair.

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    Aweee this is a cute episode about a couple who started and fell in love with the help of Google Translate because they don’t know how to speak each other’s language.

  • 10

    Mansoor Adayfi remembers the romance classes he and fellow prisoners held while at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. How do you imagine falling in love when you know you might never get the chance to? (A...Show More

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    Oh my gawd...This story about a Guantanamo prisoner narrated by the prisoner was absolutely incredible. A story about love, lack of love, a young life that wasn’t lived, happiness, joy, fraternity, an...Show More

  • 11

    A man obsessed with meet-cutes falls for all the wrong men and winds up in one mind-boggling situation after another. Will his dream of a fairy-tale romance come true? Plus, a poetic reflection on hom...Show More

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    I laughed so hard during this episode I was running out of breath. A man wants meet-cutes so bad, but ends up in the most hilarious situations instead. I want a whole pod hosted by the guy!

  • 12

    Episode 2: Shame

    Love Me

    23:44 | Jun 13th, 2016

    2 recommendations

    Two best friends have never met in person and one of them insists they keep it that way. Plus, a 1970s dating game show helps self-loathing Marsha learn to love herself again. All she has to do is cho...Show More

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    Touching first episode about a visiting your best friend you’ve never met.

  • 13

    What is love?

    Tai Asks Why

    21:42 | Oct 23rd, 2018

    6 recommendations

    Love is weird. How can this thing take over your body and bend it to its will? Tai looks to science, philosophy and his mom for answers.

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    "I live with you everyday so I have to adjust to you" - Tai's brother 😂 This was a hilarious, but informative and scientific episode about love.

  • 14

    The Man Who Slept With 10,000 Men

    D Is For Desire

    41:50 | Jul 31st, 2020

    To say that Mark S. King has been busy during the 59 years he’s been on this planet would be an understatement. Not only has he spent much of his life working as an award-winning HIV/AIDS ac...Show More

  • 15

    It’s Normal to Occasionally Hate Your Spouse

    The goop Podcast

    27:39 | Apr 19th, 2018

    Family therapist and teacher Terry Real has steered many troubled couples away from the brink of divorce, coaching them through struggles with intimacy, honesty, and transparency. In his unconventiona...Show More

  • 16

    Marriage is hard — and there are signs it's becoming even harder. This week on Hidden Brain, we examine how long-term relationships have changed over time, and whether we might be able to improve marr...Show More

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    Cleopatra and Mark Antony married for the convenience of power. Now we not only want to find partners for love, we also want them to help us be the best version of ourselves and everything else, which...Show More

  • 17

    How to Keep Love Alive

    The Science of Happiness

    20:29 | Jul 4th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    After more than a decade together, our Happiness Guinea Pig tries to bring the spark back into her marriage.

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    The Happiness Guinea Pig (i.e. the interviewee) has such as beautiful storytelling voice <3

  • 18

    Why Certain Relationships Work

    The goop Podcast

    53:32 | Jan 7th, 2020

    3 recommendations

    “Conflict is really what sharpens our ability to love,” says John Gottman, PhD, who is the cofounder, with his wife Julie, of the Gottman Institute for relationships. (They’re also coauthors of the ne...Show More

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    Terrific interview with the Gottman couple and relationship experts who can predict the chances of whether a couple will stay together or not with 90%+ confidence based on seeing their interaction. Lo...Show More

  • 19

    Love at First Quarantine

    Radio Diaries

    20:31 | May 15th, 2020

    11 recommendations

    Gali Beeri and Joshua Boliver both live in New York City and they were both single back in March when the city was preparing to lock down. Then they decided to quarantine together, after their very fi...Show More

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    “Was I ready to say goodbye to you when we just said hello?” 😭😭😭 Two strangers who only went on one date decides to quarantine together.

  • 20

    Centenarians in Lockdown

    Radio Diaries

    13:20 | Apr 10th, 2020

    8 recommendations

    Joe Newman is 107 years old. He was 5 during the flu pandemic of 1918. Today, he lives in a senior apartment complex in Sarasota, Florida with his fiancé, Anita Sampson. The complex is on lockdown, so...Show More

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    “Over 107 years, I’ve faced a lot of problems. Living is a problem!” 😆

  • 21

    When the pandemic hit back in March, Gali Beeri and Joshua Boliver decided to quarantine together, after their very first date. Today on the show, we check back in with them — eight months later — to ...Show More

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    The follow-up to that cute couple we all loved that quarantined right after their first date! The first 3/4th of the episode was the replay of the initial episode for those who missed it. The last 1/4...Show More

  • 22

    Love Me Tinder

    Today, Explained

    27:00 | Feb 14th, 2020

    4 recommendations

    A new investigation reveals what you may have suspected: dating apps can be very dangerous. But there are safer ways to look for love online.(Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...Show More

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    Dating companies are not willing to background check against sex offender databases because it’s too expensive. Perhaps it’s time to legislate. Also valuable tips on online dating for those who need ...Show More

  • 23

    The Five Love Languages

    How to Be Fine

    41:27 | Feb 8th, 2018

    6 recommendations

    We've been told that the language of love is universal...but what if it's not? What if there are multiple love languages, and what if our partners speak different love languages than we do? Jolenta an...Show More

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  • 24

    A Lifetime of Good Loving

    Modern Love

    24:45 | Dec 2nd, 2020

    4 recommendations

    When Bette met her husband, he was leaning against a wall at a party. He had, as she put it, “smoldering looks and banked fires.” He was from Brooklyn; she was from the Bronx. She assumed his silent “...Show More

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    Love doesn’t always need to be a wild whirlwind kind of love. Simple quiet and kind love is sometimes all we need for a good loving life.

  • 25

    Chemistry: Virginia Date 1

    This Is Dating

    35:15 | Jan 10th, 2022

    Is it chemistry or are you just turned on by his unavailability? Meet Virginia, a 30-something lawyer looking for the love of her life and she's gone on 50+ dates to prove it. This week, we set her up...Show More

  • 26

    Hasan Minhaj ("Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj") reads Brian Goedde's essay about a man investigating his own breakup.

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    Guy is heartbroken and starts a very diligent journalistic investigation on why he was ditched. Ends up finding himself in the process. Real sorry as read by Hassan Minhaj. 💖

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