Where radios and newspapers used to provide advice to the lovelorn, podcasts now play the agony aunt role by providing tips, tough love and true stories for the modern woman looking for love.
The podcast is a perfect format for our times: It is bite-sized, convenient and personal. You listen to it when you want, and ditch it when you’re busy, but it’s always there – like a partner, legs crossed until you return. It is also oddly intimate: a stranger speaking to you through your headphones, as if personally guiding you through your daily trials.
That’s why it is also the perfect medium for modern women looking for love in all its guises. After all, the idea of a “soulmate” and “the one” might seem quaint in an era of robots, AI, polyamory, meet-up apps and dating services. And podcasts seem to cover all aspects of modern love.
But what exactly is “modern love”, when our lives have been so intractably changed by technology and cultural norms? Is it more than mere romance? Is it more than just partnering up? Or is modern love all-encompassing, reaching across the divide to embrace family, friends, friends with benefits, potentials, that stranger in the MRT, and ultimately, about loving yourself as well – the greatest love of all (thanks, Whitney!)?
And why podcasts? We’re time-pressed, for one. But mostly because podcasts about love and relationships – the ones we’ve chosen here – are perfect for any stage of your life. Whether you’re single, looking (over someone’s shoulder), on hiatus, in an open relationship, married, coupled up or in that “complicated” vacuum, there’s no shortage of experts, celebs, stories, myths and sound advice to help you navigate this game. If nothing else, you’ll be entertained, you’ll be open to ideas, you might be transformed, and you’ll be armed and ready for whatever comes next.
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This story is from the February 2019 edition of Her World Singapore.
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