Ghosts of Boyfriends Past

When your couple friends are fighting, whose side are you on? Alice’s bestie was getting married, but a fight between the bride and her fiancé put a spanner in the works. Fast forward and the fiance rocks up at Alice’s house asking for help… what would you do?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. When you break up with someone do you owe them any explanations? Do you take the chance to correct course for their future relationships, or cut and set them free? This and more inside! We want to hear your experiences from any...

Liz and Tom are on holidays so we’ve queued up some of our best eps from the vault for your listening pleasure. CW: Brief mention of eating disorders. Ever wanted to leave a conversation in the most perfect way possible? There was something preeeetty important missing from Emma's first love. And when you're young, some relationships and exes can be really, really hard to let go of. But when Emma f...

Take a trip down memory lane with a story from our archives. A date, on a tractor, in an abandoned constructions site, at night? Jackie says yes. And then there was the "yoga" date that was ... well ... even we don't quite know how to explain it. The word cult comes to mind? London-based voice actor and stand-up comedian Jacqueline Ozorio has been on some interesting dates. Jackie is a London-base...

First love is difficult to forget. Marnie found love early and for that she’s eternally grateful. But what happens when what once felt so perfect now feels like something’s missing? In this story of love and loss, Marnie talks about what happens when you begin to think no one will quite measure up to that first romance. Marnie is a Brisbane-based singer-songwriter, writer, and creative. You can fi...

It’s part two of Liz guesting on Every Step and this time she’s donning her agony aunty cap and giving her best advice to questions hosts Judith and Krystina pose about Love at Work. Are workplace relationships a blessing or a curse for your career? In this episode of 'Every Step,' hosts Krystyna Weston and Judith Beck discuss a number of real life, love at work scenarios, with the insightful pres...

Long distance relationships are hard… and J.M Donellan aka Josh should know. He’s had four of them! (Fool me once, shame on me, fool me four times?) He joins Liz and Tom to talk about one of the grand romances that spanned four (yes, FOUR) continents. J.M. DONELLAN is a writer, musician, poet, and teacher. Aside from novels and poetry he’s also written plays, video games, the internationally admir...

Time to have your insanity read back to you Readers. It's Quickie time and we've found the best/most horrific dating stories from you the listeners, and online to make you feel better about your own dating lives. Brace yourselves, Dear Readers, for potential whip-lash as we rocket from emotion to emotion in this turbulent stories-themed Quickie! You may have noticed our click-bait title, but we co...

Psychologist Carly Dober joins Liz and Producer Zane to talk first date icks: what causes them, which ones are most common and how to tackle them when they happen. Sadly Tom couldn’t make it to recording this ep as he was literally stuck on a train going nowhere. We used results from a survey undertaken by OpenTable for this discussion. Carly Dober is a psychologist, mental health educator and pub...

Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. Today, Producer Zane enters proceedings to die on a fairly petty hill concerning wedding rings and proposals; quite the discussion so jump in and get involved! We also cover the sticky question of allowing your partner to go thr...

When there’s a lot of build up to the sex, what do you do when it disappoints? If you’re Brooke, you have one of the most awkward do-overs of all time! Brooke Seychell is a Brisbane based radio producer and presenter. Starting her career in sports journalism, she eventually found her way into radio and is currently the Executive Producer for the Weekends shows on 4BC.  In her spare time, you...

Time to have your insanity read back to you Readers. It's Quickie time and we've found the best/most horrific dating stories from you the listeners, and online to make you feel better about your own dating lives. This week we begin part one of a delve into a list of reasons that brides have called off their wedding. We would LOVE to hear your related stories, send them through to ghostsofboyfriend...

CW: Stalking, harassment. How do you let someone down if you don’t think you have chemistry? Dasia thought she did it in a kind and polite way but what happened next would change her entire life. Elizabeth Best reads out a story that was sent to us this week, with Zane C. Weber joining Tom Harris on mic. This story was originally sent to us via Facebook reels. You can find the original post here:...

Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. Interesting questions across our desk this week; are there any qualities in perspective partners that you judge unfairly? We own up to some of ours! Also, does brutal honesty get you anywhere? Plus, even more dating at work dram...

A special Bonus episode of Every Step with Judith Beck and Krystyna Westin featuring our very own Elizabeth Best as their special guest, chatting about Love at Work. “Love at Work . Seemed like a good idea at the time! Are workplace relationships a blessing or a curse for your career? In this episode of 'Every Step,' hosts Krystyna Weston and Judith Beck delve into the intricacies of romance at wo...

Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. This week WE have some questions for YOU (those of you dating that is) which may require some deeper thinking on your behalf. We also explore the idea of make up sex and miscolored flags in the dating arena. Have your story, que...

Time to have your insanity read back to you Readers. It's Quickie time and we've found the best/most horrific dating stories from you the listeners, and online to make you feel better about your own dating lives. Barbie Bombshell has exploded in the Ghosts' studio and reverberated around the dating world. So shelter down and enjoy this fiery Quickie - there's even a couple of hook up stories to re...

Shane Fell is back to tell us a couple more dating stories, that he’s seen in a new light thanks to Barbie. Shane Fell is a Brisbane based musician and songwriter. He dabbled in theatre with the Villanova Players, the Brisbane Eisteddfod and studied drama at QUT, but acting soon gave way to a passion for music, resulting in his debut solo EP ‘Off the Rails’. He is better known today for his work w...

Time to have your insanity read back to you Readers. It's Quickie time and we've found the best/most horrific dating stories from you the listeners, and online to make you feel better about your own dating lives. We are well and truly on a roll regarding workplace hookup stories and are more than happy to continue spoiling you all with them this week on Ghosts of Boyfriends Past! Have you ever had...

What started as a cheeky office hook up with a supervisor turned into Kate losing her voice in her own life. Content warning: this episode contains talk about coercive control, unplanned pregnancy and pregnancy termination.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liz and Tom are busy finding you some new guests! But until then, here is a fan-favourite episode to keep you warm at night! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. Today we cover high bars, decent apologies, a sweet little miscommunication from a Reader, and a bit of a sticky one; developing a crush on someone whilst in a relationship. Thank you so much for choosing to waste your time with...

Rachel thought she was about to go on a lovely first date. What she experienced was something so strange, she thought it deserved a new name. And she’s not alone This story comes to us via Mashable and was written by Rachel Thompson. You can find the original story here. Have you ever encountered something weird on a date? Let us know at ghostsofboyfriendspast@gmail.com Join in the conversation on...

Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. Dating at work stories continue to trickle across our desks you lucky ducks. Plus we also enjoy a bit of a fun tattoo we couldn't ignore. Let us know your thoughts, comments and stories at ghostsofboyfriendspast@gmail.com to be...

Gee whiz we are lucky with some dating in the work place stories this week. Some real toe-curlers here for your aural pleasure... Also some quite cute one night stand tales to warm your heart for a little treat. But still, we want more of your dating at work stories. Have you ever bore witness to an office romance that blew up (or maybe worked out)? Let us know at ghostsofboyfriendspast@gmail.com...