Dating A Broad

Dating A Broad is a remote dating podcast. In episode two, we meet freelance journalist Zara Zubeidi. Before quarantine she was in a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend - him in Australia and her in the UK. Now they’re locked down together and struggling to keep the spark alive. Her questions are answered by long-term digital nomad couple Courtney Loechl and Candice Archer who, having lived in a 79 Dodge campervan for the last year and travelled together for the previous four, know a thing or two about love in close quarters. Plus, our latest virtual dating updates and crazy stories from our eight years of dating on the road!

Music by Ly Trang. Find her work at lytrang.bandcamp.com.

Zara’s website is www.zarazubeidi.com. You can find Courtney and Candice on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/candiceandcourt. Courtney is at https://www.instagram.com/passport_court and Candice is at https://www.instagram.com/iamcandicearcher.

The spicier websites they mentioned are https://www.omgyes.com and https://kennethplay.com/sex-hacker-pro/

Kayla’s hilarious pandemic meditation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et7wla0LYYY

Our reading recommendation for this week is Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed. We feel like all the wisdom you could ever need about life is in this book so if anyone out there is struggling with being locked down with their partner, go and pick it up immediately. The answers to your questions are probably in there! http://www.cherylstrayed.com/tiny_beautiful_things_114549.htm

Have a wild dating story? Send us an email to [email protected]. Or you can fill in one of our surveys. For nomads: https://ellyjearls.typeform.com/to/hbwwcJ. For non-nomads: https://ellyjearls.typeform.com/to/jyYkRU.

You can become a patron at www.patreon.com/datingabroad. We’re also on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dating_a_broad/

Your hosts for Dating A Broad are Elly Earls (https://www.instagram.com/runaway_writer/) and Kayla Kurin (https://www.instagram.com/kaylakurin/)

Welcome to Dating A Broad, a remote dating podcast! In episode one, we discuss the pros and cons of being single in quarantine, why quarantine dating isn’t so dissimilar from dating as a digital nomad and why being in a relationship doesn’t necessarily make you happy. Plus, our latest virtual dating updates and crazy stories from our eight years of dating on the road!

Music by Ly Trang. Find her work at lytrang.bandcamp.com.

We mentioned a few bits of research in this episode:

Here, you can read about how single people tend to focus on their other relationships – friends, family and community – more than married people. https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/living-single/201810/are-single-people-happy-because-they-are-free

This one talks about how unmarried people with active social lives are happier than the average married person. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/one_key_to_being_happy_when_youre_single

This article talks about ‘matrimania’ - https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/9kpz98/why-new-research-says-its-ok-to-stay-single-and-die-alone

Finally, it’s the stigma surrounding being single, rather than how you actually feel about being single, that leads some single women to feel less happy.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-happier-without-children-or-a-spouse-happiness-expert

Did you know Emma Watson identifies as nomad? No, us neither until we read this! It’s our reading recommendation this week. https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/emma-watson-on-fame-activism-little-women

Have a wild dating story? Send us an email to [email protected]. Or you can fill in one of our surveys. For nomads: https://ellyjearls.typeform.com/to/hbwwcJ. For non-nomads: https://ellyjearls.typeform.com/to/jyYkRU.

You can become a patron at www.patreon.com/datingabroad. We’re also on Instagram at @dating_a_broad.