Desires You Buried

dating drama young an old🩷Riley · Oct 28, 2026 · 8m

What did you want before everybody told you who to be? Behind the responsibilities, the relationships, and everybody else’s opinions, there may still be a little fire you never stopped feeling. That poem you wrote at 12. That art you hid away. That dream you were told was “just a hobby.”

Today on Dating Drama, Young & Old, we’re talking to the 40-and-up crowd about those desires of the heart we put aside while taking care of everyone else. When did being needed replace feeling alive? And what could happen if you gave yourself permission to want something again? Let’s get a little daring—and…