Love Hurts

This is Love Hurts. I’m Bryan Berlin. Today’s guest is Sopan Deb. Sopan is a culture writer for the New York Times. Sopan sat down with me at the Magnet Theater on Valentine’s Day and...

This is Love Hurts. Aileen Clark is a storyteller and performer living in Astoria. A few years after high school, Aileen went to visit her best friend in Alaska and found herself suddenly falling for...

This is Love Hurts. Julia Whitehouse is a storyteller and performer living in New York City. A few years ago Julia found herself falling in love for the first time. But instead of this story...

This is Love Hurts. Chris De La Cruz is storyteller and educator living in the Bronx. Over Christmas, Chris and his girlfriend went on their first vacation together and quickly found themselves dealing with issues...

This is Love Hurts. Sidney Morss is a comedian and storyteller living in Brooklyn. A few years ago, Sidney signed up for online dating knowing very little about what she was into or looking for....

This is Love Hurts. Kelli Dunham is a storyteller and comedian living in New York City. A few years ago, Kelli fell for someone who lived on the other side of the country. When their...

This is Love Hurts. Michael Stevens is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. Michael shares the story of his multi year relationship, and how it featured almost breaking up twice, starting an open relationship,...

This is Love Hurts. Stacey Bader Curry is a storyteller and real estate broker living in New York City. Stacey was always someone who wanted her life to be an adventure. After her first marriage...

This is Love Hurts. Annie Tan is an educator and storyteller living in Brooklyn. Annie talks about being born in the US to Chinese immigrant parents, and how she had to learn how to live...

This is Love Hurts. Randy McKay is a graphic designer and performer living in Brooklyn. Randy talks with my about the two main loves in his life, and how different each of those relationships were...

This is Love Hurts. Sandi Marx is a storyteller living in New York City. Sandi talks with me about being nice, and how her need to be nice kept her from ending relationships when she...

This is Love Hurts. Ashley Glicken is a writer and comedian living in Queens. Ashley noticed a problematic trend in pop culture of using a disabled sibling as a way of making a main character...

This is Love Hurts. Matt and Maryann Alspaugh are writers and performers living in Austin. Matt and Maryann may be married today, but they each experienced very different types of heartbreak on the path to...

This is Love Hurts. Mikki Hommel is a singer and songwriter living in New York City. Mikki grew up wanting to find love, but wasn’t successful finding it from middle school all the way through...

This is Love Hurts. Leyna O’Neill is a podcaster and marketing creative living in Portland, Oregon. The year Leyna graduated high school and started college she lost five people close to her. She had to...

This is Love Hurts. Joe Minchik is an actor, writer, and storyteller living in Queens. For years, Joe desperately wanted to find someone worth settling down with. When he finally did, it turned out they...

This is Love Hurts. Jana Fisher is a writer and storytelling living in Los Angeles. Jana talks with me about her purity pledge: a pact she made at age of 12 to not kiss anyone...

This is Love Hurts. Mark Lamb is a storyteller and dancer living in New York City. Mark talks with me about growing up in rural Kentucky in the 70s and suspecting he was gay from...

This is Love Hurts. Alicia Lutes is a writer living in Los Angeles. Alicia gives an in depth look into her childhood, which featured divorce, abuse, and Alicia feeling like an outcast for having emotions....

This is Love Hurts. Jolenta Greenberg is a comedian and podcaster living in Brooklyn. Jolenta comes on the show to talk doomed hookups — specifically the story of hooking up with her coworker one night...