Help I Swiped Right - Help I've Been On Over 100 First Dates

Episode Date: July 13, 2025

In this first episode, I explain why I created this podcast, talk about what to expect from the Help I Swiped Right podcast and open up with a story time on the whole of my dating history, revealing h...ow I have been on over 100 first dates!Plus, your dating dating dilemmas and questions get answered.How many first dates do you think you have been on? Have you also been on over 100 first dates? How many dates do you go on a week or year? How have the apps changed dating culture? Email your questions and thoughts to helpiswipedright@gmail.comHave you got a dating dilemma ? Email it to helpiswipedright@gmail.com to get your question answered on the pod!Instagram, TikTok, Youtube @HelpISwipedRightNew Episodes every Sunday!

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello and welcome to the first ever episode of Help I Swiped Right. I am so excited to be finally launching this podcast. I've wanted to do it for so long. I absolutely love listening to podcasts and I'm absolutely just buzzing now to be creating my own podcast. So thanks for listening. Every week I'll be exploring the heart. and lows of modern day dating culture, I'll be sharing fun dating stories and answering your questions and dilemmas on dating as well. There'll be new episodes every Sunday, so please do
Starting point is 00:00:41 subscribe so that you get the latest episodes as soon as they come out. As this is a new podcast that I'm just launching by myself, like editing it by myself, I'm recording this at home on my five pound microphone that I've got from Vinted, I would love your thoughts and your feedback on how the episodes are going and any suggestions that you have and hopefully we can help this podcast to grow. So please do drop a review or email your suggestions to help I swipe dry at gmail.com. In today's episode, I'll give an introduction to myself. Explain what you can expect from the podcast. I'll be spilling the tea, major tea, about how I've been on over 100 first dates, I'll reflect on how I think this has happened, what does this mean about me and how do I feel about it?
Starting point is 00:01:29 Second part of the episode is where I'll be answering your dating dilemmas, like, is a coffee date and it's acceptable first date? How long should you be dating for making it official? And what do you do if you're dating someone and then you find out their house stinks? So, all of that to come, but first of all, let me introduce myself. I'm S-Jan. So I turned 30 in January and I live and work in London. I work full-time in the education sector and I love my job, love what I do, working with students.
Starting point is 00:02:04 I feel really lucky to have the life that I have in London, having my own flat and lots of friends, lots of hobbies. I do ballroom and Latin dancing, yoga, running, and I've just been loving life so far this year. Something happened since turning 30 where I think before, I was kind of dreading it a little bit, but now it's arrived, ever since I've turned 30, I've just felt so good. I've just felt so like myself, like all the other years I was maybe still figuring out who I was. Not that I realized that at the time, but now that I have turned 30,
Starting point is 00:02:49 I just feel so me. I can't really explain it. I don't know if anyone else listening up that I had kind of the same realisation or if you've just turned 30 as well and you're loving being in your 30s, like please do right in. So that's me and I'm also kind of known as the single friend I would say in my friendship group. Like most of my friends are married and I have had relationships and you know I have had serious relationships but I have also spent a lot of time being single and dating and you know last year I would say I was really trying to find a partner I really wanted and I felt ready to find a serious partner but it just didn't happen despite the many many dates I went on last year and I've done a bit of reflection and it just kind of occurred to me I would
Starting point is 00:03:51 estimate that I've been on over 100 dates in my lifetime. It was kind of a bit of a weird realisation when I thought of that. And I'm just been figuring out like, how do I feel about that? Is that a lot? Is that normal? Like, have you been over 100 first dates? Please write in. How many dates do you think you've been on? And I suppose my question is, like, is it normal to be 30 years old single and have been on over 100 first dates. We can dive into that and how I think I've got to this place. So I've had, I would say, three serious long-term relationships and then two sort of like less serious relationships. And then just in between that, many first dates where it's just been like one date, never seen them again. And then obviously quite a few
Starting point is 00:04:52 dates where it's been maybe two or three first dates or a bit more than that. And it's not turned into a relationship. Last year especially, I, this is where the number probably really bumped up to over 100 where like I said, I think I had this thing last year where I was 29 and I really felt ready to meet my life partner. I'd been for a lot of therapy in my life and like I said now that I turned 30 I really feel like me and I just felt so ready to meet my partner last year so I thought right I've got to just date seriously and make it happen. So there was times last year while I was going on four dates a week. A couple of times I actually went on two dates and one day. it was horrific. Don't do that.
Starting point is 00:05:45 I think I only ended up doing that because again I felt this like pressure like I need to find my person. It's a numbers game. Everyone out there says it's a numbers game. I need to just keep going on dates and surely enough one of them will be my partner right? Well wrong because I didn't meet my partner last year. But I tried. I really, really tried. I gave it a good go and I suppose towards the end of this episode, I'll share some lessons that I learn from my experience of all the dates I went on last year. But let's rewind. Let's go back to my first boyfriend, age 18, we meet in a nightclub when I'm 18 years old and yeah, we just started dating.
Starting point is 00:06:35 We went out for two and a half years and this is before apps. I think when we met the apps didn't exist yet. But anyway, like I said, I was 18. I didn't know anything. We met in a club and that was it. We just started there and out. We then break up and this is now Tinder has like just become a thing. It's very new Tinder and I get on Tinder, um, being newly single and I would have gone on a few Tinder dates. So what? I'm about age 20, 21 at this point. And in this period, definitely went on a few. dates of people I've just met organically at uni. Some in Tinder, nothing happens, nothing turns into a relationship. It's just like a few dates. I then go to Australia. So I'm age 22 at this
Starting point is 00:07:27 point. After uni, I go to Australia for a little bit to do some travelling because I was just, I did my degree in philosophy and of course that doesn't really lead itself to a job, does it? So I was figuring out what on earth I want to do with my life and thought, let's just go travelling. So I'm in Australia and again at this point, I remember being on Tinder in Australia and also meeting people in real life and going on a few dates. So we just met organically, again, including someone that I meet in a nightclub again. But this person turned out to be an Olympian. So I think I'll save that story for another episode of how I met a Olympian. in a light club and we start going out with each other.
Starting point is 00:08:12 That was very exciting at the time. So, yeah, that's Australia. So let's say I've gone on about maximum 10 first dates in Australia maybe. I come back to London and I'm still going on a few dates in London. Again, a mixture of Tinder and real life meetups, including Tube Boy, which is a guy who I met on the Tube, on the London Underground. So, yeah, we just made eye contact to each other on the tube and he asked my number.
Starting point is 00:08:44 And I think from memory, we went on like four dates, like nothing happened. Like, there's nothing serious with him, but kind of a fun story that we just met on the underground and he asked my number. Anyway, so what year, that would have been the year 2017. So moving on to next year, I remember that I dated two journalists this year. I don't know why. Again, I remember they were both from the apps and wasn't dating them at the same time. It was like, dated one, a few months later, I must meet the other one. And with both of them, we went out for about two, three months. Like, we were exclusively dating. It got stuff to that point where you're like, is it going to turn into a relationship? And unfortunately, it just didn't. There was clearly on both sides mutually wasn't that thing to make it say, let's actually go into a relationship. So that ended. But again, I remember, like, having fun experiences and fun dates with those guys. Now, there must have been of people as well, but I can't really remember them.
Starting point is 00:09:50 I do remember age 24, I then meet my second serious relationship. So this guy, we met on a dating app called In a Circle. I don't know if that's still a thing. Quite a weird one, that app. I don't know why I was on it. Anyway, I ended up meeting this guy, my ex, second serious relationship. I'm going to try and keep things a little bit vague to protect people's identities, but let's just say this guy isn't from the UK.
Starting point is 00:10:23 He is from another European country, but he's lived in London for years at this point, and yeah, we're together. It's a serious relationship. And by serious relationship, let me caveat that actually. I've never actually lived with a partner, apart from the first boyfriend where around age 20, we sign a lease together. This is in my third year at uni, but then we break up. So I barely lived with him. Like, we lived together for like one month, probably, because also context for the first boyfriend, he went travelling a lot for his work. So he wasn't in the flat very much. And at this point, he's also cheating on me. So because he worked away so much as well, he would just be like, oh, I'm just a way of work.
Starting point is 00:11:15 But he was also cheating on me. So cool. Anyway, I'm probably going to the full story of that. And another episode, Help I've been cheated on. But for now, we're back to Help I've been on over 100 first dates. So just the whole story of my dating. history. So second boyfriend, as I said, I'm calling the three serious relationships I've had serious, but yeah, we didn't live together of any of them. Again, is that normal, but I've got
Starting point is 00:11:48 this first, you know, not actually properly lived with a partner. Again, it's just how things went. So, yeah, we're both living in London, this ex and I, second boyfriend, he's living in a flat share in one part of London. I'm living in the flat share in South London. And but things are going well, like seeing each other regularly and having a fun time and he was a lovely man. He then kind of finds out that he needs to move back to his home country somewhere else in Europe for work. So he was working in London for a set amount of time. He then needs to go back. So we then start doing long distance. So this is now rolling into early 2020, we're long distance. And I'm flying out to go and see him where he lives. And at this point,
Starting point is 00:12:42 you know, things aren't going well. When we're both in London, I think we're happy. Long distance, I wasn't happy. You know, it was hard. It was taking a lot of work. It was only just about working, I would say. Then, obviously, Mars, 2020, COVID, lockdown, all the borders are closed. we can't see each other anymore and I struggled with that like as I said things were only just about working with me flying and seeing him like once a month so the thought of then not being able to see him for like an unknown amount of time yeah we just ended it that that was sad we obviously broke up over the phone because it was COVID and then obviously because it's COVID I don't go on many dates that year obviously I did have a few
Starting point is 00:13:32 COVID dating experiences, which again, maybe I'll go into the few deep, the more details of them in the future episode, because I do have some funny COVID dating experiences as well. But anywho, that was the second relationship I had. And again, in the COVID era, I probably went on like three dates that year, something like that, when we were allowed to, when it was the, you know, I remember that whole like tear system we had in London and there was certain times where you could mingle, certain times you couldn't. It was a wild, wild time. Anyway, 2021 we're now into and I was seeing someone, this one I'm calling it a not serious relationship. Like we were dating for some time, but it wasn't serious and it couldn't get into that
Starting point is 00:14:27 more relationshipy territory because he definitely was avoidant like it was hard again a really lovely guy he had so many good qualities and i truly wish him well that's the thing honestly like other people are like oh i hate my ex blah blah blah like i really don't um i do feel blessed that overall first relationship aside I won't go into the full details of the first relationship I had now but long story short that was abusive
Starting point is 00:15:04 and maybe I'll share the full story of that another time but yeah other than that guy the first one most people I've dated or have had relationships with I think have been good people it's just not worked out
Starting point is 00:15:21 so anyway that guy was yeah lovely guy that I'm having a sort of like a not serious relationship with in 2021 got tired of that I got tired of him not fully committing and kind of cancelling on me sometimes and not treating me with as much respect as he should have done and pretty much shortly after that I then met my third boyfriend my most recent serious relationship so 2021 we meet on Hinge. And we go out for about two years. And again, he was a good man. I was happy in that relationship. It felt really nice to have a healthy adult relationship. And to do
Starting point is 00:16:12 things like, so at this point, I'm probably 27, 28. And so we're going to friends' weddings of each other and nice holidays together and just doing stuff like that. And it felt nice. I've been single for quite a long time and it felt really nice to bring someone with me to things with my friends where all my friends have got long-time boyfriends and I'm usually the single one. And then finally I could bring my boyfriend with me and it felt nice. But yeah, I wanted things to move to the next level. I was talking about moving in together and saying to him that I would like to be working towards moving in together. Again, we're both living in different parts of London separately, seeing each other regularly, but it was a bit of a travel between our houses
Starting point is 00:17:11 and I wanted to be kind of, yeah, having a chat about are we going to be looking to be moving in together, like, in the near future. And he kind of wanted to move in together. He saw that as being something a bit more further in the distance, and I wanted that to happen a bit sooner. But anyway, we had agreed that, okay, by the end of that year, what year would that have been, 20, 23, that we were going to move in together, and then I felt happy with that. But But then it would have been like April of that year that we broke up and he just kind of said he was kind of having like cold feet about moving in together and he didn't know why and he just thought maybe there's something not quite right in the relationship and we broke up and obviously
Starting point is 00:18:12 that was really sad you know like I said he was a good man lovely lovely guy obviously I knew his friends you knew my friends and I thought it were working towards something so yeah but again obviously things just weren't quite right after that I then obviously not immediately afterwards but like later on that year in the summer I'm back on hinge and I remember I had three hinge dates the first two I didn't want to see them again the third guy which ended up getting on really well and we kind of entered again what I would say was my second non-serious relationship we were together quote unquote from like what July till January ended things and then kind of saw him again briefly from May till June um and this whole
Starting point is 00:19:10 thing he was like oh yeah like we're not together blah blah blah blah blah and then afterwards we spoke about it and it's like yeah like that was a relationship like we weren't seeing anyone else, talking to anyone else. But I suppose it was this not serious thing in part because, again, he wasn't from the UK. He was from another country and he's here for work and it was his whole like, he knew he wasn't going to be here forever and was going to be moving back to his home country at some point. So that was my last kind of like little, I don't know if you want to call it, situation, relationship, relationship. Again, Again, I don't fully get the definition of situationship.
Starting point is 00:19:53 If you've got a definition of what situation ship is, please let me know. But with me and that guy, we weren't seeing anyone else. It was only seeing each other. And I saw him like every week and we would go on dates. We would do things like go to the theatre. We went on a UK weekend break. it was quite relationship-y, but it just didn't feel serious. And I suppose, obviously, it was very short-lived.
Starting point is 00:20:23 It was like, what, six months or something that we were seeing each other. But again, like, lovely guy, overall, good experience. Obviously, if all these relationships, there were obviously something not quite right with them and some downsides as well. But for the most part, I think he's a great guy. And again, like, I wish him well. so that's the last time I'm kind of properly seeing each other that kind of ends properly in the summer of last year but like I said also last year 24 this is the year that I went on
Starting point is 00:21:05 a lot of dates I think with ending things with that situation ship guy or non-seous relationship guy in early 24, I then thought, right, this is it. I now feel ready to meet my serious partner and I was on the apps and I don't know how I did this but I said there was weeks, not every single week, but there was periods where the most amount of dates that I went on in a week was four dates and it wasn't like a one-off like, oh my gosh, there was one crazy week where I went on four dates There was multiple weeks last year where I was somehow going on four dates a year. It's four dates a week. And it was exhausting.
Starting point is 00:21:56 Exhausting. I look back and I truly don't know how I was doing it and why I was doing it. And it felt like I was on a conveyor belt. And I wasn't getting excited about the dates because it was just there was so many of them. and I felt like I just had to do it and it was just a numbers game and eventually I was going to just meet this partner if I just met as many people as possible
Starting point is 00:22:21 surely that would give me the greatest chance of meeting the one because looking back when I met my ex from Hinge and my other ex from Inner Circle I didn't think I was going to meet them I didn't know they were going to tend to be my boyfriend it was just like oh just going on a date so I thought I just have to have that outlook and just see how things go but yeah none of these ones turned into relationships there was two guys and I'm from last year that I really really liked and I wanted to get into relationship with
Starting point is 00:22:58 them despite only being on five dates max I would say like I said I think I was in this mindset set last year, where I just really wanted to meet my partner and anyone I met who I thought, oh, they're really nice, they're attractive. I just then kind of got infatuated, I suppose, and I think I made them out to be something in my head that they weren't in reality. I think I just wanted my partner and I wanted it to be them. And I ignored so many red flags. So anyway, regardless to say, I didn't meet my partner last year, I went on a lot of first dates, quite a few second and third dates as well. Probably the most amount of times I dated one person last year was five probably from memory. Again, it's the thing, I went on so many, the whole
Starting point is 00:23:56 thing's a blur and it's just not good and thank God I came to that realization. In November last year, I was completely burned out and actually anxious from how many dates I had gone on. And when you think about it, there is an emotional investment in dating. There's the highs and the lows. And I've been through all of that so many times last year. And, yeah, I was dating someone in October, November that I had hoped that that would work out. and looking back, I was completely foolish. There was so many red flags with him.
Starting point is 00:24:37 I think I was just tired. I just wanted it to be done. But I didn't, obviously, didn't work out with him. And at that point, I had to take a break. I deleted everything. I deleted the apps. Didn't date. And I just had some time to switch off.
Starting point is 00:24:56 And to come to the realization that I was going to be 30 and single. I think for some reason I had it in my head that I really wanted to meet someone and enter my 30s as, and in my new adult phase for a partner. And it just didn't happen. So once I had to take some time and once I actually processed that, I honestly, I look back and I'm like, how silly, because now I'm single. And my mindset has changed completely. I now feel so good about being single. and actually really lucky to be single at this point in my life. I now see it as a gift to be 30 and still have this much free time and freedom.
Starting point is 00:25:42 And I feel so empowered to have my own flat and to not need a man. I now see it as a real positive. But anyway, back then, end of last year, I kind of had to reset for a little bit. So then entering this year, I took a little pause. where again I didn't go straight into dating. I just tried to embrace thinking about what are the other things in life I can do. I can't control finding a partner. It has to happen when it happens.
Starting point is 00:26:16 I tried to control it last year. I thought I could control it by going on as many dates as I could. I can't. It doesn't matter how much effort you put into it. Finding your partner, it's just serendipity, it's luck, it's the magic. of the universe. It's just, it's something you can't control. And that's the beauty of it. That's why finding love is so special because it's so random and you truly can't control it. So I thought to myself, right, I can't control my dating life. What can I do in life? And instead, I just started doing
Starting point is 00:26:53 all the other things that I wanted to achieve in life. Like, I went to a writing course and I'm now, doing a bit of writing. I've obviously just started this podcast. I did my first half marathon. I've been keeping up with my ballroom and Latin dancing. I went skiing for the first time. I took myself on my second. Actually, I've been on quite a few solo trips. Australia was a solo travelling as well. But early this year, I took myself away to Greece just by myself and I've just been living life and my new outlook for this year is like yes I'm going on dates yes I am on hinge but dating is very much a lower priority in my life I'm doing it because it's fun to meet new people and only when I feel excited about meeting someone am I going on a
Starting point is 00:27:48 date this year so I would say this year I've probably been on 10 first dates and we're what, we're in July. So that's like one or two a month on average. And I've been on Hinge, but like barely. Like my new way I manage Hinge is that I don't check it. Notifications are off. I pause it quite a lot. Like I'm on pause at the moment.
Starting point is 00:28:13 And I'm just chatting to the odd few people. I've completely changed the way I manage it. And the way I'm managing it now works for me. if you're feeling burnt out on the apps, first of all, I'd recommend take a real break from everything. And then when you do want to go back on, just kind of be quite strict with yourself, but you either only check it once a day or once a week. And yeah, just don't spend so much time on there. Like, it's fine. Like, I've still had these dates without, you know, kind of being on it every day, messaging all these people. I just can't. I'm doing it in the way
Starting point is 00:28:54 that works for me now. And I actually met two people in real life this year as well. And I have really positive dating experiences of two people that I met in real life. So I would have had what, eight hinge dates, eight first hinge dates and two in real life dating situations, which Again, I think I'll give the full stories of the IRL Meekutes in another episode, but a little tease. One of them is a guy that I met when I was on the weekend away in Amsterdam. It's a good story and he does then fly to London to see me. And again, spoiler alert, obviously we're not together and things didn't work out of him. But it was a good dating experience.
Starting point is 00:29:46 And I think my mindset this year where I'm not chasing dating as much, I'm just going on it now and then, it's helped me to have better connections, have a lot more fun. And, yeah, even though I've still not met a partner quite quite, I'm saying still like that because that's not my mindset anymore. I would still love to meet a partner one day, but I'm not. chasing it in the same way that I was last year and I feel happy with my dating life. I feel like I've met good people, been on fun dates and I'm happy with the people that I met in my life as well. It's been fun. So that is the story of how I've been on over 100 first dates. Reflecting back on that, so what, it's been 12 years of dating 100 first dates, is that, that weird, I've truly got no idea. I'd love to hear what you guys think about it.
Starting point is 00:30:53 Email, help I swiped right at gmail.com with your stories, with your dating numbers, and I'll read them out. Obviously, it can be anonymous, but I'd love to have a bit of conversation and create a bit of community of people that look all out there on the app. Obviously, it's hard, it's weird, it's not natural. It's not a natural way of meeting someone, so I know it's difficult, and that's kind of why I created this podcast. So we're not in this journey alone. I'd like to bring us together every week, every Sunday, to share stories, to have some laughs. So, yeah, interact with me on social media.
Starting point is 00:31:33 Let me know. Is 100 first dates normal, weird, am I a freak? Or is that just kind of how dating is? Okay, so this is a section of the podcast where I'll be answering your dating questions and dilemmas. If you would like your dating question or dilemma answered, please email me at help I swiped right at gmail.com. I can make it anonymous, so don't worry. I'd love to hear your dilemmas as well, so please write in. The first one I've got this week is this.
Starting point is 00:32:11 How long before making it official boyfriend and girlfriend? We've been seeing each of us as the start of March. We've been exclusive early on, as we only sleep with one person at a time. We've met some of each other's friends, etc. But we're both very busy, so we see each other roughly once a week. Just trying to gauge if it's going anywhere, as it's been three and a half months. He's very consistent on a message every day. Hmm.
Starting point is 00:32:43 I would say personally, by about three months, months, you're definitely having a chat at this point about what things are. And yeah, to this person, you need to have that chat. I think three months, if you're not having a chat by that point, you need to instigate it. You need to know where your things are. Like, in his head, it could be that you guys are already boyfriend and a girlfriend, because you know, you're exclusive, all these things, but you just said it out loud. Or he could think of something differently. So you've got to have a chat. You know, there's no formula.
Starting point is 00:33:17 I think some people, you can be boys and a girlfriend from like the third day even. You know, there's not an exact recipe. It's whenever you both feel comfortable. I think by three months of seeing someone like once a week for three months, you would know, do I want to be in a relationship with them? Or is it something not serious? or do I want to stop seeing them? So, yeah, you need to have that chat.
Starting point is 00:33:49 Okay, next question. I've been speaking to a guy on Hinge for about a week, and the conversation's been great. He's ticking every box. He asks him I'm free this weekend, and I say, I don't have plans for Saturday. He then said, can we go for a coffee or a walk on Sunday? Okay, so he's not even responded to the right day at the week, no mind.
Starting point is 00:34:12 I can't help but feel disappointed. I've never been on a coffee slash walk first date and I just feel it's a bit less than I feel like I can't say I'd rather do drinks because then I've been forced to taking me into drinks what would you say? Okay, look to this person you've got to say what you want
Starting point is 00:34:32 some people out there would like a coffee date I was actually in the park yesterday and I noticed people there was clearly on a first coffee date because I overheard the conversation and it was like oh have you got any siblings and I thought, oh, they're having a coffee and a walk first date. Good for them. Look, it's not for me, okay? For me personally, I don't think I would like to do a coffee and a walk first date. It just wouldn't feel very dainty to me. It would feel more like meeting a friend. I think it'd be harder to feel that romantic connection. But that's just me. Like, should we get a coffee? That's something I would say to, a friend or a man I would want to keep things friendly with.
Starting point is 00:35:19 Let's say I met someone networking and it was a more professional thing it would be let's get coffee. If I like someone romantically, it's going to be like, let's get drinks, let's get dinner, like let's do an evening activity, but it's different for everyone. It's probably different culturally as well.
Starting point is 00:35:37 Like if you don't drink alcohol or you're Muslim and things like that, like maybe you would prefer to just get a coffee date. But this person, they've said that they would prefer drinks. So you should absolutely say that. Like, there's nothing wrong with saying that you want to get drinks. He can say no if he doesn't want to.
Starting point is 00:36:00 You're not forcing him to go out for drinks. But yeah, I have to say, for me personally, I don't like coffee dates and I simply just won't do them. If someone asks me to go and get coffee, I'll just say, I don't think that worked for me for a first day. I would prefer to get dinner or drinks. How do you feel about that? And they can say yes or no. This is a brilliant thing.
Starting point is 00:36:24 No one's forcing anyone to do anything. If you've got a certain standard of what you want, stick to it. I know girls out there that would only accept dinner dates. And if that's what you want to do, that's what you want to do. For me, I don't mind just getting drinks in the first date. I have had dinner dates at first dates. This could be a future episode actually where I talk about some of the like
Starting point is 00:36:47 funniest first dates I've had. But usually it is just drinks, isn't it? Or let me know like what do you usually do for a first date and would you accept a coffee date for a first date? Let me know. Okay, this is the last dilemma I'm going to answer. I've met a guy who's so nice. I like spending time with him,
Starting point is 00:37:09 but there's a minor thing that's bothering me and I need to know I'm being dramatic. His apartment smells. He's got a big dog but I struggle to breathe when I go inside and I'm not sure if it just needs a good clean and I hope he hasn't done it or are there more sinister things at play?
Starting point is 00:37:29 Okay, I don't fully understand this message but yeah, imagine you're dating someone you go into their house for the first time and it stinks. I mean, thankfully, I've not had that experience. I don't know what I would do. How bad's the smell? Is it like you gag?
Starting point is 00:37:48 Or she says she struggles to breathe. Girl, that's not good. You can't do that, okay? You can't be in someone's house and it stinks. I mean, obviously you've got to tell him, like, look, there's an aroma in your house. And it's not a good one. You need to tell him. Or just don't go there again.
Starting point is 00:38:06 There's a lot of, I need to know a lot of one for me. here like how many dates have you been on are you like in love with him and now his house stinks like do you want to try and make this work or is it the case that you don't really know him that well and now his house stinks in which case get rid you know I do think that's a red flag smells in general like if he smells if his house smells if his dog smells for me I'm very funny about smells I can't do that and again having a dog yeah obviously there can be a wet dog smell things like that, but get some air fresheners. Open the window. You're trying to attract a lady. You know, you've got to keep your house nice. So, yeah, I'm sorry, girl. I don't think you see
Starting point is 00:38:52 it again, basically. I don't know what you mean by more sinister things at play. What would the sinister things be? Like, is he hiding their bodies? Is that what you're worried about? Is that how bad the smell is? Look, I think, obviously, say to him, You know, lovely seeing you the last time I saw you, I did notice that your house smell a bit to me. I don't mean to cause any offence by that, but just, you know, I was struggling with the smell a bit. Did you notice the smell? You know, you could say, you know, it might be your dog. I'm not sure.
Starting point is 00:39:31 You know, is there anything you could do with your apartment? And just see what he says. If he says, no, you've got a binel off. if he apologises profusely and says he will get things clean the next time, then if you're really into him, you can give it one more chance, I'd say, but I just think that's a bit of a red flag for me at someone's house, stinks. And this brings us to the end of the very first episode of Help I Swiped Right. Let's grow this podcast and grow the Help I Swiped Right community.
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