Minisode: Polyamory Problems

Dear Chelsea

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Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Couples Counseling with Chelsea has never been this blessed: A 20-something worries she’s in for heartbreak when she falls for a polyamorous, married Rabbi.

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0:00.0	In 2020, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare.
0:05.8	Someone was posting photos.
0:08.1	It was just me naked.
0:09.5	Well, not me, but me with someone else's body part.
0:13.2	This is Levitown, a new podcast from IHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg and Colliderscope,
0:18.2	about the rise of deep fate pornography and the battle to stop it.
0:22.1	Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:28.3	or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to couples counseling with Chelsea, handjob, where we do
0:34.3	couples counseling on all sorts of variations of friends, lovers, families. Welcome to my office.
0:42.7	Hi, Catherine. How are you? Hi, Chelsea. I want to jump right in with our callers today, which are Rachel and Leah.
0:50.5	Rachel is the one writing in and she says, Dear Chelsea, I could really use some advice.
0:55.0	About two months ago, I met a woman at a party and we fell hard for each other.
0:58.9	It turns out she is polyamorous and married with a child.
1:02.2	She's 36 and I'm 28.
1:04.1	Traditionally, I'd never go for someone who was in a situation like this, but I couldn't help myself.
1:08.8	We have such a deep connection and she makes me so happy.
1:12.0	She's also a rabbi, which is so meaningful to me because I'm Jewish. The thing is, she isn't out
1:16.8	as polyamorous to her congregation so we could never go public. Also, my boss happens to be in her
1:22.2	congregation, super weird coincidence. Additionally, I'm not 100% on board with calling a woman with a husband and child
1:28.5	my girlfriend. Let's call her Leah for these purposes. I was at her house earlier this week and had to
1:33.6	leave because her husband was coming home and I couldn't fathom meeting him. I fear that if I were
1:37.8	to meet him, I would feel really sad and ultimately freak out and break things off with Leah or
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