grief support group #14 💌 on men weaponizing therapy speak and kissing on the first date

Welcome to the 💌💗GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP🪩🍒‼️. This is my radio show on KSFS Radio at San Francisco State where I talk all things pop culture, my research on grief and media, and answer your advice questions.

This week I discuss Valentine’s Day being for friends and family, the book No Death, No Fear, The Summer I Turned Pretty and the symbol of the wave, and answer the following advice questions:

★ Should I kiss on the first date? Or when is it acceptable to do anything of the sort

★ How do you deal with the dating landscape when people weaponize or misuse therapy talk like avoidant, gaslight etc.? I don’t feel like many of these men are actually in therapy just that they know the right buzzwords

Ask your advice questions anonymously here: bit.ly/ksfsadvice

Here’s the music I played this week:

If you want to play the music alongside the audio:

1. Introduction segment

2. Music break [You Are The Sunshine Of My Life, Tití Me Preguntó]

3. Research segment

4. Music break [sweetener]

5. Advice segment 1

6. Music break [Talk Remix, Mine]

7. Advice segment 2 and outro

8. Music break [Hold Up]

Listen live next time on Thursdays from 9-10:15 a.m. PST at ksfsmedia.net or by downloading the KSFS radio app. 🪩 See you there!