4: lovelustfear | gabi | we can't break up

lovelustfear

May 1 2024 • 28 mins

Gabi's dating life takes a darker turn when she finds herself entangled in a toxic workplace romance with an abusive partner and is forced to conceal his drug addiction and self-destructive tendencies to protect his career.

chapters

listen with caution | 00:00
next on lovelustfear | 00:17
about gabi | 01:19
gabi’s story | 02:24
questions & answers | 21:15
closing thoughts | 26:24
charity & organizations | 27:41
submit your story | 28:11
disclaimer | 28:22

quotes

“I was in my early to mid-twenties, really living my best life in West Hollywood. I was really at an exciting point in my career where it felt like anything was possible.” - Gabi

“When I found out that we would be working on a show together, I knew that that was wrong. I was like, I don't want to date someone I work with. That's really problematic.” - Gabi

“…there would always be alcohol. He'd always be drinking when I first went to his place. And I'm like, oh, he must, like, have friends over a lot and he must party a lot.” - Gabi

“He went from being someone who was so supportive of me and encouraging of me and my career to someone who was telling me I wasn't good enough. I wasn't funny enough. I'll never amount to something.” - Gabi

“And he would do things to make that very difficult. Bring different girls every night to the tapings of the show, flaunt that he was dating other people in front of my face. He really went out of his way to make me feel like crap, and to make it really hurt.” - Gabi

“That relationship messed me up. That abusive relationship did not look like what I thought abusive relationships looked like.” - Gabi

learn more about gabi

personal website | https://www.gabiconti.com/
instagram | https://www.instagram.com/itsgabiconti/
tiktok | https://www.tiktok.com/@itsgabiconti
twitter | https://twitter.com/itsgabiconti
book | https://www.gabiconti.com/book-twenty-guys-you-date-in-your-twenties-by-gabi-conti
bad influencer | podcast | https://link.chtbl.com/LdLb8v6u

music | sounds

Music Attribution:
Music (CC BY 4.0):
Lost Place Atmospheres 002 and The Question Is (Quizpackage) by Sascha Ende
Very Low Note by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Other Music and Sound Effects by Piotr Witowski, Alex Wit, cybercutie, Timothy Kulig, AlesiaDavina, Pixabay, Samuel F. Johanns, UNIVERSFIELD, Yevhenii Kovalenko, and Slicebeats from Pixabay

Spacetime by Mountaineer

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The National Writers Union
https://nwu.org/

Protects freelance writers and journalists and is backing the SB988 Bill in California, also known as the "freelance isn't free" bill to protect freelancers.

https://contracosta.news/2024/02/03/senator-wiener-introduces-bill-to-expand-freelance-worker-protections/

National Domestic Violence Hotline (24/7/365)
Call 1.800.799.SAFE (7233)
Text: START to 88788
https://www.thehotline.org/
https://www.facebook.com/NationalDomesticViolenceHotline
https://www.instagram.com/NDVHofficial/

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