Brave Enough For Love

We're back with round 4 of the dating terms game - the one where we pull the vocabulary of modern dating out of a hat and try to figure out what it actually means. This round: zombieing (the ex who rises from the dead), benching (yes, you're the backup, not the starter), orbiting (the visible post-breakup socials play), plus the walls vs boundaries conversation that turned into a "min...

We're back with our favorite ridiculous game: "what does this modern dating term actually mean?" The vocabulary keeps changing under our feet - situationships, cuffing season, dating detox, ex factor, leaving on read - and if you're dating in your 30s and 40s and beyond after divorce, half of these words didn't exist the last time you were single. So we wrote them on cards an...

The Dating Terms Game is back. Part 2. Chris and Kabrina decode the new dating vocabulary that's everywhere right now — situationships, halfsey-ships (one person fully in, the other only halfway), breadcrumbing, and the rest. With a closing line we're putting on a t-shirt: "Love is blind. Dating's not." But first, the opening bit: the marriage hangover. The leftover habits an...

We thought we'd done our homework after Episode 1. We had not. Round 2 of the dating-terms guessing game and somehow we are MORE confused than we were before. New terms, worse guesses, and the dawning horror that the dating world has invented a vocabulary specifically to make divorced adults feel ancient. Chris and Kabrina back at it — still laughing, still losing, still very glad we are not c...

The dating world has its own language now and nobody handed us the dictionary. So we played a game. In this episode, Chris and Kabrina sit down and try to define modern dating terms — the ones our kids use, the ones we hear thrown around on TikTok, the ones our newly-divorced friends are crying about over wine. Most of our guesses are unhinged. Some are accidentally right. All of them are very, ve...

Marriage ended. Co-parenting did not. Welcome to the lifetime subscription you didn't know you signed up for. Chris and Kabrina on the very specific chaos of co-parenting after divorce — the group texts about pickup times that somehow take 47 messages, the holiday math, the moment you realize "till death do us part" got replaced with "till the youngest turns 18."This isn't a fight episode. It's a...

Pepper spray? Check. Location shared with your bestie via a group chat named "If I Die Tonight"? Check. A vibe check so finely tuned you could detect red flags from orbit? Also check. Welcome to dating after divorce — the only sport where the warm-up is filling out a 47-question personality quiz and the final boss is deciding what to wear. Your first date back out there might feel like t...

We were "just friends." That's what we kept telling everyone. That's what we kept telling ourselves. That's what we told our group chats with increasingly suspicious emoji use. Reader: we were not, in fact, just friends. This is the story of two divorced parents who agreed to meet up for coffee, got nervous in the parking lot like a couple of teenagers, and left that first da...

Is dating really THIS dumb? Short answer: yes. Long answer: YES, but also sort of hilarious, and you're definitely not the only one crying laughing at your phone at 11pm on a Tuesday. The apps. The ghosting. The guy whose entire profile is one blurry gym mirror selfie and the words "ask me anything." Sir, no. The woman whose bio says "fluent in sarcasm" (ma'am, so is ev...

Plot twist nobody warned us about: our first marriages were the practice round. Like… they were a really long, really expensive, emotionally catastrophic rehearsal. And nobody handed us a trophy at the end. They just handed us paperwork. A LOT of paperwork. But here's the wild thing: you don't come out of a first marriage with nothing. You come out with SCOUTING REPORTS. You know what you&...

Listen. Nobody — and we mean NOBODY — had us on their bingo card for this. Not our friends. Not our families. Not that one aunt who meant well but kept sliding us casserole recipes like food was the answer. (Aunt Linda, we love you, but the carbs did not, in fact, fix it.)The glow-up after divorce is real, and it is SNEAKY. One day you're on the floor of your closet wondering if you'll eve...

"Who AM I?" is the question that hits at 2am when the house is silent and you're eating cereal over the sink wearing the old t-shirt you can't remember buying. It's the question that hits when somebody asks what you like to do for fun and you realize the last hobby you had was "keeping that marriage alive."It's the question that hits when you catch yourself in a...