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🎙️ Expectations, Experiences and Exits
Agnes and Ryan talk about the assumptions people carry into relationships, what the relationship turns out to be like, and the different ways it ends. They cover assumed expectations, the early grand gestures that fade, why marriage is work, situationships, taking time before moving in together, bei
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Lent, Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse and Remembering Notable Passings
In this relaxed, unscripted episode, Agnes and Ryan catch up on Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day, a miniseries about President Garfield, and the difference between Fat Tuesday and Polish Fat Thursday. They discuss the Lunar New Year and the year of the fire horse, Lent overlapping with Ramadan, a
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🎙️ The Mixed Signal Playbook: Promises, Plans and Ghosting
In this Valentine’s Day eve episode, Agnes and Ryan unpack romantic mixed signals: misleading texts and dating-app flirting, people who ghost or never show up, and kindness mistaken for interest. They separate unintentional mixed messages from manipulation and love bombing, and say to ask early wher
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🎙️ Envy: Why Your Success Triggers Their Insecurity
Ryan and Agnes explain the difference between envy and jealousy and discuss why other people’s success can trigger insecurity, which Ryan calls bad mind in Jamaican speech. They talk about friends who envy instead of celebrating, comparing yourself to others, social media’s polished picture of life,
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Simp, Serve or Set Yourself Free
Agnes and Ryan discuss simping, meaning giving excessive money, attention or devotion to someone who does not reciprocate, and where generosity ends and self-neglect begins. They cover love bombing and controlling behavior, the trad wife trend, why mothering a partner kills romance, and how friends
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Seven Rings, One Love by author Agnes Amisano
A two-minute promotional trailer for Agnes Amisano’s memoir Seven Rings, One Love, about six difficult engagements and a seventh relationship that became her first marriage. It points viewers to an interview on another program and to the Love, Death, and Taxes podcast, and says the book is available
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First Date Etiquette: Who Pays, Doors, Ordering & Exes
Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Agnes and Ryan go through a viral list of minimum first-date expectations for men, including who pays the bill, opening doors, letting her order first, walking her to her car, and not talking about your ex. They debate the tone of the list versus its substance, with Agnes a
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Happy New Year! from Love Death and Taxes
In their New Year episode, Ryan and Agnes celebrate Agnes’s 2025 as an author, including her novel Seven Rings, One Love, a theme song a relative wrote for it, and its arrival at Barnes & Noble. They talk about plans for 2026, Agnes’s move into full-time relationship coaching, how younger generation
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Author Agnes Amisano – 7 Rings One Love
Ryan interviews Agnes about her memoir Seven Rings, One Love, why she spent more than ten years writing it, and what she learned from her marriages. They cover refusing to see herself as a victim, forgiving her mother and herself, leaving Poland at 20, and the difference between attention and love.
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Agnes Amisano, Auhor of “Seven Rings, One Love”
Ryan interviews Agnes about her new memoir Seven Rings, One Love, now available on Amazon in English and Polish. Agnes explains why it took over ten years to finish, how she had to forgive herself and her family, and what six failed engagements taught her about marrying out of need instead of love.