10 Podcasts like Close Encounters
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1. Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel
Listen to the incomparable therapist Esther Perel counsel real couples as they reveal the most intimate, personal, and complicated details of the conflicts that have brought them to her door. This season, she takes on open marriage, racism inside an ...Show More
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51:19 | Oct 8th, 2017
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[Contains mature themes] He reached out because a year after the discovery of his affair, they aren’t fighting anymore, but they certainly haven’t moved on. Esther guides them towards a more honest co...Show More
2. Modern Love
For 18 years, the Modern Love column has given New York Times readers a glimpse into the complicated love lives of real people. Since its start, the column has evolved into a TV show, three books and a podcast. Each week, host Anna Martin brings you...Show More
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24:45 | Dec 2nd, 2020
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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
3. The Heart
The Heart is an audio art project about power and love. From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia.
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19:20 | May 10th, 2017
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Episode One of No: the story of Kaitlin's non-psychedelic trip through girlhood. [Trigger Warning]
4. Love Me
Love Me is a CBC original podcast about the messiness of human relationships.
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Episode 1: At A Loss For Words
21:56 | Jun 13th, 2016
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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.
5. Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage, America's only advice columnist, answers your sex questions and yaps about politics. To record a question for Dan to be answered in a later podcast, call 206-302-2064. For a much longer version of the show, with no ads, visit savage.love ...Show More
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50:22 | Dec 4th, 2012
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Lesbians! Have you noticed that wherever you go you run into your lover's ex and your friends are all the same and there's only one lesbian bar in town? Thought so. The continuum of culpability; when...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.6. Dear Sugars
Radically empathic advice
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43:28 | Oct 22nd, 2022
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In this second part of our series on moving on, the Sugars discuss how we can release ourselves from our past mistakes. Dr. Harriet Lerner drops in to answer a letter from a woman who calls herself a ...Show More
7. Guys We F****d
Hailed as changing the way society thinks about female sexuality, Guys We Fucked continues to pave the way toward a healthier outlook on sex. Hosted by stand-up comedians Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson, this critically acclaimed podcast will ...Show More
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8. Anna Faris Is Unqualified
Relationship advice from completely unqualified Hollywood types. New episodes every week! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....Show More
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1:07:04 | Dec 1st, 2015
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Anna and producer/co-host Sim Sarna welcome the one and only Rosie O'Donnell! Join Anna and Rosie for a hilarious discussion about their awkward celebrity encounters, kissing Allison Janney, and how R...Show More
9. Why Oh Why
Named a best new podcast of 2016 by The New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post and iTunes. Andrea Silenzi speaks with friends, experts, and guys in bars about where love, dating and sex meets technology. The show tells the stories about relationships o...Show More
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30:47 | Apr 14th, 2017
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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
10. Alone: A Love Story
Alone: A Love Story is an award-winning memoir by Michelle Parise. With candour and humour, Michelle delves into the deepest, darkest aspects of her divorce and her new life as a part-time parent, part-time partier.
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19:46 | Sep 19th, 2017
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On the cusp of her 39th birthday, recently divorced Michelle struggles with a complicated new romance. A drunken tarot card reading returns her to 1999, when she first met The Scientist (soon to be Th...Show More