With Valentine’s Day only a few days away, it’s a perfect time to explore the best podcasts on everything love and relationships. Ranging from humble beginnings to well-known experts on the subject, and everything in-between, these sixteen podcasts will surely satisfy your fix. Here are some of the Veritone One Podcast team’s top recommendations.
1. Wild ‘Til 9
What do you get when a DIY influencer dates an ex-frat-president tech mogul? Honestly, we’re not really sure either, but we’re all about to find out together. Hosted by Lauren Riihimaki (LaurDIY) and boyfriend, Jeremy Lewis, Wild ’Til 9 is about relationships, spotting the red flags and giving the green lights, and the lifestyle in which this polar opposite couple found themselves. Things are about to get wild… but only until 9 p.m.
2. Why Won’t You Date Me
Nicole Byer is single and has been for decades. She’s smart and funny. So, the question is why is she perpetually single? This podcast is a quest to find that answer. Every week, Nicole invites a comedian, friend, or ex-fling to interview their dating life and figure out her own.
3. We Met At Acme
We Met At Acme is a podcast by Lindsey Metselaar about millennial dating in NYC. We live in a generation of suppressing and not expressing. This podcast touches on subjects that we don’t talk about, but we all want to know about. We Met At Acme delves into sex, relationships and vulnerability, with some hilarious anecdotes along the way.
4. Dating Straight
Renowned lesbian Amy is pessimistic when it comes to love and is a true believer in “nothing lasts forever.” Globally recognized gay Jack is as optimistic as they come, believing healthy, long-lasting relationships do exist—he just hasn’t found one yet. Here to make you laugh when you’re getting over an ex and keep you in check when you fall in love after the first date, Amy and Jack will always give it to you straight.
5. Love Letters
Each season on the Love Letters podcast, Boston Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein poses a single, burning question about love and relationships and attempts to answer it through rich stories, interviews, and confessions from her own life.
6. The Upside with Callie and Jeff
Our 2016 wedding went viral because Jeff surprised Callie with puppies before the ceremony. Since then, life has been pretty rough. Getting fired from a dream job. Serious health scares. A best friend’s betrayal. A totaled car. Loss of one parent, two grandparents, and a pet. A miscarriage. We have really put ‘for better or for worse’ to the test the past few years. Through it all, we’ve learned and grown. We’ve managed to laugh more than we cry and we are excited about the future. We’re grateful for everything…even the rough stuff. And we are sharing all of this on our podcast.
7. MOOD with Lauren Elizabeth
Online personality Lauren Elizabeth is a business-savvy Midwestern girl living in Los Angeles. She’s honest, hilarious, and isn’t afraid to keep it real. Each episode Lauren dives into her best and worst moods of the week. You’ll become obsessed with her current mood boosters ranging from lifestyle products to tips and tricks. Stick around for each new topic discussion and #MyMOOD advice segment. Subscribe to have your mood boosted each Wednesday.
8. The Love Hour
Kevin & Melissa are a young married couple, bringing you a fresh take on love and relationships. They’re using their 15+ years of marriage experience to offer insight in a relatable way, addressing matters of the heart with plenty of candor, humor, and nuggets of wisdom. Through transparency and honesty, Melissa & Kevin let couples know they aren’t alone in their trials, but that together they can make it through them all!
9. Death, Sex & Money
Death, Sex & Money is a podcast about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of the polite conversation. Host Anna Sale talks to celebrities you’ve heard of—and to regular people you haven’t—about the Big Stuff: relationships, money, family, work and making it all count while we’re here.
10. Modern Love
For 16 years, the Modern Love column has given New York Times readers a glimpse into the complicated love lives of real people. Since its start, the column has evolved into a TV show, three books and a podcast. Now, we are excited to announce a relaunch of the podcast at The Times, hosted by Daniel Jones, the editor and creator of Modern Love, and Miya Lee, editor of Tiny Love Stories and Modern Love projects. Each week, we’ll bring you their favorite stories from the column’s vast archive, conversations with the authors, and a few surprises.
11. Committed
Join host Jo Piazza as she delves into the hilarious, heartbreaking, and inspiring stories of couples of all kinds who’ve soldiered through unimaginable circumstances, and after the longest of days, still want to wake up next to one another in the morning.
12. ONE Extraordinary Marriage
Is your marriage everything that you want it to be? Are you ready to make a change? Join Tony and Alisa DiLorenzo to create a strong marriage so you can have mind-blowing intimacy inside and outside the bedroom. Marriage is not always easy but it’s so worth it. Come and make your marriage EXTRAORDINARY!
13. Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage, America’s only advice columnist, answers your sex questions and yaps about politics. To record a question for Dan to be answered in a later podcast, call 206-302-2064. For a much longer version of the show, with no ads, visit savagelovecast.com and get yourself a season subscription.
14. The Viall Files
The podcast that talks about relationships. Nick has a lot of dating experience (on TV as The Bachelor and off), so he likes to think he knows what he’s talking about. On Mondays, listeners call in for a live version of the popular Instagram series “Questions with Nick.” On Wednesdays, Nick sits down with an inspiring guest who challenges the way he looks at the world. We love to laugh, be silly, and get deep.
15. Dear Sugars
Hosted by the original Sugars, Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond, Dear Sugar Radio fields all your questions — no matter how deep or dark — and offers radical empathy in return.
16. Divorced Not Dead
Caroline Stanbury is divorced, not dead. Remember when you were destined for the spinster life if you found yourself without marital bliss after 40? Forget that! Recently divorced at the age of 44, Caroline is here to let you know that not only is there life after divorce – it can be your best one yet!
That’s a wrap. There are many more that could have ended up on this list but these are the ones that stuck out the most to us. With this group alone you will have plenty of exploring and new shows to add to your regular listening routine.