Dating in Recovery: On Vulnerability, Diet Culture in Relationships, and Finding Someone Who Can Handle the Hard Stuff (Bonus Episode)

About this episode

Abbie discusses the complexities of dating in recovery from disordered eating and body shame, addressing listener questions and sharing personal experiences.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com Abbie answers a listener question about one of the most complicated intersections: dating (relationships) and diet culture — especially when you're carrying a history of body shame, disordered eating, and the ongoing, nonlinear work of recovery. Elizabeth, a listener in her early 30s, writes in about the men she keeps encountering on the apps — the gym-obsessed ones, the salad-only ones — and asks a question that cuts to the heart of it: is this my gut, or is this fear? What you'll hear: *Why "too sensitive" isn't a useful frame — and what to ask instead *Safety and self-worth as the foundation of dating in recovery *Learning to trust your intuition when diet culture has distorted it *When to share your mental health history (and when you don't have to) *The difference between a trigger and something to work through *Revisiting your dating app parameters — and the biases built into them *Abbie's own experience navigating ED recovery while dating Then Jeb, Abbie's husband, joins for an unplanned conversation about what it was actually like when they met — both carrying things they…

People in this episode

Host: Abbie Attwood

Guest: Jeb

Topics covered

• dating in recovery
• diet culture
• mental health
• body image
• vulnerability
• relationships

Keywords

• recovery
• diet culture
• mental health history
• intuition
• dating apps
• body shame
• vulnerability

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