This week, our inbox serves up a story that had us shaking our heads more than nodding . Someone writes in to tell us about the time their friend pulled what they called a “genius” revenge stunt on his cheating girlfriend. But when the dust settles, our hosts aren’t buying the mastermind narrative—and in fact, they think this so-called genius move might’ve crossed a line (or three). Was it clever? Was it cathartic? Or was it just plain messed up? Tune in as we unpack what actually makes for sati...
Jun 25, 2025•23 min•Season 6Ep. 7
A little glimpse into some of the fun we'll get up to over at our Patreon. Ghosts of Boyfriends Past After Dark, where we bring the microphones back up after the closing music and keep on talking. Further discussion from anything broached in the main episode, or various rambling and ravings from Liz, Tom and Zane. Send your dating stories and questions to [email protected] and check out our brand new Patreon at patreon.com/GhostsofBoyfriendsPast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...
Jun 18, 2025•9 min
OUR PATREON IS LIVE! https://www.patreon.com/GhostsofBoyfriendsPast Now for this week’s ep: This week on Ghosts of Boyfriends Past: Ali had a type —and that type was heartbreak in a leather jacket. But when staying with a bad boy left her confidence in tatters, she did something totally unexpected: she flipped the narrative and turned her pain into power, launching a whole new career in the process. If you've ever tried to win over someone who treated you like a side quest, this episode is your ...
Jun 11, 2025•42 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. On this week's episode, Liz, Tom and Zane dissect a bit of a story with a question attached. Sit yourself down and wrinkle your brain over this one with our hosts, and even let us know your thoughts at [email protected] Send in your sweet and sour stories, ask us your questions and why not indulge us with a revi...
Jun 04, 2025•14 min
Marnie thought something was missing in her love life... so she got creative. What do you do when something very dear to you has gone missing? You put up lost posters, of course! That's exactly what Marnie did when she lamented the lack of romance in her life. But what started off as a quirky way to 'beat the boring' in the pre-Tinder dating world quickly went viral. So did Marnie actually date the people she met through her posters? Did she find the love of her life? Marnie Clarke (@msmarniecla...
May 22, 2025•38 min
Mira eventually has her heart broken after she finds The Letter, and reflects on little changes in behavior throughout the course of her relationship with James. [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 15, 2025•40 min•Season 6Ep. 5
We are delving back into the archives for one of our favourite encore episodes. Rachelle met her perfect man and everything was so easy. Until a split second comment changed everything. Rachelle was interviewed by Liz for this episode, and her story was written up to be read out on air. Zane C Weber joins Liz and Tom on air to talk through a very tricky situation that’s still unfolding as we speak. Got a story you want to share? Email [email protected] and we can figure out how be...
May 07, 2025•51 min
He loves her, he loves her not, he loves her. Get ready for the rollercoaster of Maeve’s breakup with a flip flopper… except technically the breakup never actually happened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 30, 2025•32 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. The BIG LIST is back baby! Tom returns with another chunk of the list of 150 First Date Questions for Liz and Zane to sift through, judge and potentially, execute. So, please play along with us and picture putting these questions to somebody on a first date of your own... Send us your answers, questions, stories and FIXES for ...
Apr 23, 2025•14 min
Toby thought he had found the love of his life at first. Then his mates started telling him something was off about his girlfriend. It would take a horrible moment before he realised what was actually happening. Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of emotional manipulation and psychological abuse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 16, 2025•34 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Time to have your insanity read back to you Readers. It's Quickie time and we've found the best/most horrific dating stories from you the listeners and online to make you feel better about your own dating lives. Stories this week are all themed around begging to be taken back after being broken up with, and all of the potential fallout...Plus, technology catches more cheaters. So dive on in for another Quickie of Ghosts of Boyfriends past. We want your take-me-back tales, or any stories at all, ...
Apr 09, 2025•16 min
After a lifetime of dating men, Jackie decided to try dipping her toes into the lady pool. And while the sex was amazing, it turns out that drama has no gender. You can find Jac’s first ep for GOBP here: https://play.acast.com/s/ghosts-of-boyfriends-past/jackieandthetractordate And her second one here: https://shows.acast.com/ghosts-of-boyfriends-past/episodes/jackie-and-the-grey-area Jackie is a London-based trained voice actor with a passion for character work and storytelling. To further her ...
Apr 02, 2025•36 min
Mel had been friends with her bestie for years… in fact, several generations of her family were also friends with her friend’s family! But when she discovered a big secret her bestie was keeping from her, everything changed. Meet Mel Tan, one of the co-hosts of 30, What Now? , the podcast where two now 33-year-olds try to make sense of the beautiful mess that is "adulting". With humor, heart, and a dash of sarcasm, they dive into all the things that make your thirties wild—career curveballs, rel...
Mar 26, 2025•36 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Time to have your dating insanity read back to you Dear Readers; it's a stories driven Quickie episode this week. For discussion amongst yourselves; has technology made it harder or easier to catch a cheater? We do NOT condone it, but today we dive into some stories where cheating has been outed by technology. PLUS, some examples of reaching the point of no return in a relationship... Send your good, bad and ugly to [email protected] as we love your stories and confessions. Thank ...
Mar 19, 2025•10 min
WE’RE BACK! After a well deserved holiday, Liz and Tom are back, this time with our new Ghosts of Friends Past series. Returning guest Carly chats about that time her bestie just… wasn’t her bestie anymore. Can you ever get closure when a friend just ghosts you? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 12, 2025•40 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. Yet more dating questions to pose and ponder here on Ghosts of Boyfriends Past. Is there someone in your life who you are just forced to have a relationship with? Do you have to like your partners friends and family? All of this and more awaits you inside Dear Reader. Subscribe to the show on your platform of choice to stay up...
Jan 29, 2025•19 min
Time to have your insanity read back to you Readers. It's Quickie time and we've found the best/most horrific dating stories from you the listeners, and online to make you feel better about your own dating lives. Another helping of insanity from the dating world for you Dear Reader. We hope your holidays were happy and healthy and that you have set a little bit of time aside for Ghosts of Boyfriends Past. Send us your dating stories to [email protected] ! Hosted on Acast. See acas...
Jan 16, 2025•22 min
Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. Merry Christmas to each and every one of you. Thank you for choosing Ghosts of Boyfriends Past as your little escape from friends and family this festive season. We are on holiday ourselves but have dished up yet another Quickie for you to snack on. Tom puts even more first date questions to Liz and Zane this week. Reach out a...
Dec 26, 2024•19 min
Time to have your insanity read back to you Readers. It's Quickie time and we've found the best/most horrific dating stories from you the listeners, and online to make you feel better about your own dating lives. What date of the year would you think is the date that most people break-up on? Have you ever self-gifted yourself anything as a placeholder for somebody else? Tuck in and enjoy our holiday servings of Ghosts of Boyfriends Past. The perfect gift for us would be a simple rate and review ...
Dec 12, 2024•15 min
Time to have your insanity read back to you Readers. It's Quickie time and we've found the best/most horrific dating stories from you the listeners, and online to make you feel better about your own dating lives. A real ripper of a first date story today on Ghosts of Boyfriends Past. Every now and then we want to bring a bit of a levity and boy have we brought it in bunches here. Bit of a flatulence warning for our second story but it is well worth the ride. plus, green flags and dodgy dates. Se...
Nov 27, 2024•14 min
Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. Dating advice for new couples is first off the top of the show. What advice would YOU give to a new couple starting out? We have another bash at our giant list of first date questions so please jump in and join us! We would love your dating and break up stories - particularly friend and family splits that may have occurred... ...
Nov 13, 2024•16 min
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Nov 07, 2024•48 min•Season 5Ep. 22
Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. This recording session, Tom has fears that Liz has been replaced by cunning aliens. So to test if the REAL Liz is in the building, we threw a couple of questions her way to get her secret thoughts on a few things in the world of dating, romance and weddings... Join us for a laugh and a discussion on yet another Quickie of Ghos...
Oct 30, 2024•11 min
How much do you know about consent? It’s probably not as much as you think. LINEA PROMO CODE: Reshape your teeth and rediscover your confidence with Linea. Right now, listeners of Ghosts of Boyfriends Past can get $100 off their Linea treatment. Take the quiz on linea's website ( lineaofficial.com.au/aligners/quiz/ ) and use the promo code "GHOSTIES" in the "influencer" drop box and enjoy $100 off any Linea treatment. Tinder, the dating app that revolutionised how people meet, has launched its n...
Oct 23, 2024•28 min•Season 5Ep. 21
Time to have your insanity read back to you Readers. It's Quickie time and we've found the best/most horrific dating stories from you the listeners, and online to make you feel better about your own dating lives. Dear Reader we thank you so much for once more tuning into Ghosts of Boyfriends Past! Look at you here, all ready for yet another Quickie... Liz brings us some cute green flag dating stories today, plus we wonder have you ever kept something from your partner and not revealed it until A...
Oct 16, 2024•9 min
When your boyfriend says one thing and your friends say another, who do you trust? Visit our Facebook group: Ghosts of Boyfriends Past Group Therapy to join in the discussion. Have you got a story to tell? Let us know here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 09, 2024•32 min•Season 5Ep. 20
On this week's Quickie of Ghosts of Boyfriends Past, it's Zane and Tom holding the fort while Liz is away. Just what you wanted, dating advice from 2 white men! Today the boys further explore our enormous list of first date questions plus supplying their own thoughts on the world of dating conversation. Join the convo or have your dating story shared on the show by writing us at [email protected] and we would absolutely love to hear from you. xoxo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
Oct 02, 2024•14 min
This week we have a returning guest in freelance radio producer and presenter Brooke Seychell into the studio to bring us our very first 'breaking up with a friend' story. We explore the nebulous realm of friendship and what it can mean to be a good and bad friend this week on Ghosts of Boyfriends Past. Have you ever had to split up with a mate? Was it as difficult as going through a romantic break up? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 25, 2024•54 min•Season 5Ep. 19
Liz and Tom don their relationship counselor caps and do their best to help out friends of the show in their pursuit of love and happiness. With next to no qualifications. How would you feel about your partner accepting drinks in a bar without informing the drink purchaser that they are involved with someone? Reason to be upset or is a free drink a free drink? We discuss and answer more relationship questions inside, so jump in and continue the conversation at [email protected] an...
Sep 18, 2024•15 min
Ever thought about getting a vasectomy? Ever wanted your partner to get one? We chat to Scott about his experience getting the snip. Because Liz and Tom think more people should talk about this stuff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 11, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 17
