Wanting to Be Wanted More Than Wanting Them Podcast

Wanting to Be Wanted More Than Wanting Them Podcast: This is a conversational podcast exploring my essay Wanting to Be Wanted More Than Wanting Them from the book Ghosts of Sex. In the podcast we discuss the emotional shift where desire centres on being wanted rather than truly wanting the other person, the subtle way validation can carry more weight than intimacy, and how attention, affirmation, and recognition shape our sense of self within encounters. We explore how connection can become self referential, how longing for confirmation can quietly replace curiosity about who the other person is, and how this realisation often arrives only after the intensity has faded.