Proof of Life with Preston Rakovsky
Most of us learned about love by accident, from movies, our parents, and relationships that taught us more about what we didn't want than what we did. But love isn't one-size-fits-all. This podcast brings you a new perspective on love every episode: the couples therapist, the ER doctor, the grandparents, the wedding planner. Borrow what resonates, leave what doesn't, and build a definition of love that's actually yours.
Episodes
Why It's So Easy to Ignore Relationship Warning Signs
A woman who spent four years shrinking what she asked for explains how the smallest possible request became the thing her relationship couldn't survive, why a to-do list told her more than any conversation did, and what it took for her to stop believing she was too much. The problem was never how much she wanted, it was who she was asking.
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Why Relationships Get Stuck At Surface Level
A woman who could name exactly what she was feeling in the moment she felt it explains how one comment at a friend's dinner party exposed the version of herself she'd been performing for four months, why four years in a relationship where honesty felt safe left her with no idea how to tell a friend she was hurt, and how a gold bracelet chosen over hours of back-and-forth texting showed her what a
How To Tell If You're Looking For Love in the Wrong Place
A woman who spent five years arranging her life around one person explains what happened the year she picked up a dream she'd abandoned in college. Not a fight. Not an ultimatum. A pattern of questions that never got asked. She blocked her closest friends so none of them would ever find the account. Then the algorithm handed it to one of them anyway, and she was approached about it in public with
The Effort Trap in Relationships
A woman who showed love in eight-hour meals and quietly finished laundry explains how a conversation about the origins of Bluetooth exposed the one thing she couldn't give her fiancé, why a year of couples therapy, a booked venue, and a hand-designed ring didn't prepare her for the summer he spent secretly deciding whether to leave, and how five friends packing her entire life into tote bags in a
Are You Asking Your Partner The Right Questions?
A woman who spent years testing her boyfriend's love through hypothetical worst-case scenarios explains how a random question about turning into a worm on the New Jersey Thruway cracked open a pattern she didn't know she had, why growing up in a house where needs went unspoken taught her to ask for love sideways instead of directly, and how therapy helped her trace her hypotheticals back to a simp
Engaged in 6 Months: Why Waiting Longer Won't Make You Sure
A woman who spent four and a half years convincing herself that doubt was just the price of love explains how she mistook a relationship that never fit for one worth fixing, why a pair of jeans became the way she finally understood what she'd been ignoring, and how she went from years of not knowing to being certain about someone else within six months. The doubt, she realized, was never the probl
Married Magician Reveals The Lie About Modern Love
A professional magician of over two decades explains why he spent 15 years chasing the grand gestures he thought love was supposed to be, what a $40 bag of firewood in Vermont taught him about the difference between the honeymoon and the marriage, and the one thing he now believes actually holds a relationship together. Because real love, he's decided, has less to do with the fireworks or the airp
The One Question Every Couple Avoids Until It's Too Late
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The Difference Between Love that Looks Right and Feels Right
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Married 21 Years: Don't Create a Safe Space
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Why Trying To Be Loved Is Pushing People Away
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Gary Vee: The Kind Of Love That Decides Your Whole Life
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Why Grand Gestures Are Actually Red Flags
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Why You Stay When You Know You Should Leave
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You Marry the Same Person Three Times
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What The Bachelor Taught Me About Conversations We Avoid
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What No One Understands About Love Until It's Too Late
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The Type of Intimacy Most People Will Never Experience
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Marriage Therapist: The Skill That Makes Love Last
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Resentment is the Cholesterol of Love
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Married 20 Years: The Difference Between Limerence, Attachment, and Love
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American's Don't Love Hard Enough
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He Won't Date a Woman Who Can't Be His Friend First
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Why You Should Celebrate Your Breakup
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Americans Don't Know How To Love
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You Are Not Just Falling for Them, You Are Falling for Who You Are With Them
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To Love is to Be Heard, Not Just Listened To
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When Dating, Don't Trust Your Gut
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Love Isn't a Goal You Can Work Towards
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Love Only Exists When Its Enacted
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Luke Chiang on Reframing His Past Relationships
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men not talking about their feelings is a recipe for disaster
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there isn't "one true love" for everyone (therapist)
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people should focus on themselves rather than trying to find a relationship
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dating should be approached as an anthropological study
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