I'm Addicted To Fake Relationships With Celebrities

Other People’s Lives

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Experience chef-quality meals every week delivered right to your door. Go to https://cookunity.com/OPL or enter code OPL before checkout for 50% off your first week. This week we speak to a woman who is addicted to parasocial relationships. She explains how these relationships began, the lengths she has gone to convince herself that she knows these people, and how she has tried to stop. We talk about the dangers of parasocial relationships, how the internet fuels them, and talk about Joe and Greg's own experiences with it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	With Cody Koh, some things came out about some things he had said, and I got really, really upset,
0:06.8	like unreasonably upset. And it started to feel like this betrayal.
0:23.3	Welcome back to other people's lives. I'm Joe Sanigato. I'm Greg Dybeck. For anyone out there that would like to be a guess in our show, don't hesitate to reach out to us.
0:26.9	Our email is OPL Podcast at gmail.com.
0:30.5	Today we're speaking to a guest that reached out and the subject line of the email read I'm addicted to
0:36.0	Paris social relationships. Quick definition if you don't know what a Paris social relationship is.
0:41.9	It is a one-sided psychological relationship
0:45.6	between a person and a media figure or, you know, internet personality, television star. It's based on an idealized version of the person and not real interaction
0:58.4	between the two people.
0:59.8	So we've got the guest on the line and thank you so much for being on today.
1:03.0	Yeah, thank you guys for having me.
1:05.0	Really excited to have this conversation and talk about this concept and your experience.
1:11.0	So can you start off, if there's anything that you want to add to that definition to start
1:16.4	and just kind of the first time that you became aware that you were having parasocial relationships?
1:23.4	Yeah, so I think the definition you gave covers it pretty well.
1:29.3	I think the key thing is, you know, that the person that you have the relationship with doesn't know that you have
1:36.4	that relationship with them. They don't know you exist. And I think it's also important to know that this isn't, it's not a form of psychosis, it's not a form of psychosis it's not a delusion where you think that you actually know the person
1:47.2	it's actually a lot more common and simple than that it has more to do with
1:52.0	thinking that you know a celebrity better than their other fans or like
1:56.3	thinking that oh yeah everybody else knows this person but I know more about their content I know them better and feel closer to them.
2:04.0	Yeah, and then you said like the first time that I like sort of became aware of it, right?
2:11.0	So... I didn't really start to realize that it was a problem until later in my life
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