Audrey Hussey Answers Viewer Questions on Jealousy, Insecurity, Trust, and Marriage

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Overview

Matthew Hussey brought his wife Audrey back to answer viewer questions after the audience asked to see more of her. Earlier commenters had said they valued "a female's perspective on the dating scene" and asked for a series. Audrey takes most of the questions and Matthew adds his own views on some. The topics range from a partner's sexual past and hair loss to fear of dishonesty, feeling "behind" in dating, keeping a marriage healthy, and getting back into dating after a long time alone. Her answers keep coming back to one idea: build confidence and stability inside yourself instead of trying to control what you can't know or change.

12 min read
1:49

A Partner's Sexual Past

The first question comes from a viewer named "All the Umbrellas in London." Her partner had slept with many people before meeting her, all one-time hookups. She has slept with only one person. Because of this difference, she worries that their intimacy isn't special to him, since he has "already shared his body with so many others." He tells her not to worry and says their relationship is special because she is the first woman he has committed to. The thought still comes back and makes her sad. She asks whether this is a bad reason to end a relationship that is otherwise going well.

Audrey's direct answer is no. She doesn't think a partner's sexual history is a good enough reason to break up, and she doesn't believe having a sexual past makes someone untrustworthy. She points out that "to varying degrees, we all have a sexual past," even if some people have had more partners than others. What matters more to her is whether the two people are aligned now: how each of them values intimacy, connection, and monogamy today, rather than what either did before.

She then flags part of the question as "a little bit of a red flag." The viewer didn't describe past relationships. She described only one-time hookups. The transcript then includes a line agreeing that the partner "is allowed to change" and that everyone may shift their values. It is unclear whether Audrey or Matthew says it. The answer ends with the view that a history made up entirely of one-time encounters can suggest someone who "isn't able or willing to have any real intimacy with someone." So the past alone isn't disqualifying, but the pattern is worth noticing alongside how he is behaving now.

4:17

Hair Loss and Confidence

Gayatri, a member of Matthew's Love Life community, says she relates to Audrey's earlier comments about hair loss. She has dealt with it since puberty and still does as she starts her 30s. She asks how Audrey kept it from defining her and stayed confident that she was worthy.

Audrey says her hair was falling out in her 20s and she tried many things to stop it. She gives the practical answer first, because she says that's what she would want if she were asking. She stresses that these are things that helped her personally and that viewers should do their own research and talk to a healthcare professional. Her list:

  • A full blood panel, to check for deficiencies such as iron or vitamin D that could be causing the loss.
  • Minoxidil from a dermatologist, topical or oral, which she says "really, really helps with hair shed."
  • PRP, scalp massage, and microneedling, which she describes as stimulating growth.
  • Rosemary oil masks.
  • A high-protein, balanced diet.
  • Supplements. She names Nutrafol as one she considers good and says dermatologists recommend it.

She says she "threw everything in the kitchen sink at it" because that's her personality. For others, she suggests picking based on budget, time, and appetite for the problem, trying things one at a time, and not getting overwhelmed.

Matthew asks what she would say to people who have tried everything without success and whose hair bothers them every time they look in the mirror, affecting their confidence in dating. Audrey says she understands the feeling from experience and offers what she calls a "pressure valve": "Your hair is a feature and no one marries a feature. We marry a person." People choose a partner as a complete package of flaws, qualities, and physical traits, not because of one feature. She thinks the goal is to be "the most compelling complete package" possible. That comes from developing your best qualities, not from fixating on the one you dislike. Then, if a partner meets you and finds something they wouldn't have picked, whether hair, weight, or a personality trait, they decide they "cannot possibly walk away" because the whole person is too good to pass up.

7:36

When You Can't Tell If Someone Is Honest

Teresa Sinclair writes that she has been hurt too many times and dating gives her anxiety. "No one stays true to who they say they are." She asks how to tell whether someone will be honest and consistent.

Audrey says plainly that you can't know. You can never be sure whether someone is who they claim to be. She adds that "half of the time we don't even know what we want." Someone can mean it when they say "I really like you" and still change their mind six months later and break another person's heart. She doesn't think that uncertainty is a reason to shut love out.

Instead she describes what a person can control. Trust yourself to make the best decision you can. Choose people you believe share your values about relationships, honesty, and commitment. Take your time so you don't overinvest and end up heartbroken after three weeks. Most important, build enough strength inside yourself to know you'll be okay if someone changes their mind, lets you down, or turns out to be unkind. In her words, we can't put our faith in the idea that someone will never hurt us. We can only put our faith in the fact that we will be okay if they do. She sees that as what makes it possible to take risks and put yourself back out there.

Matthew builds on this with a qualification. He says that knowing you're strong enough to walk away doesn't necessarily fix the underlying cynicism that "everyone just winds up being bad." It can even feed that cynicism, because when things go wrong we tell ourselves they all end up the same. He separates strategies for protecting yourself from strategies for healing your view of people, and says the second also needs attention.

He gives a personal example. He recently felt taken advantage of in a situation, and it brought back past experiences of being deeply taken advantage of by certain people. His mind connected the two and wanted to settle on the belief that everyone eventually takes advantage. Audrey told him it was fine to be upset, but that this person was very different from the people in his past and had different intentions. He calls the idea that follows empowering: if we take on a role of leadership in our interactions, we can influence the people we're with and bring out their most generous, optimistic, and respectful sides. "Beyond trauma is leadership," he says, and leadership doesn't just watch for the right outcome with people, it creates it. (He follows this with a promotion for his in-person retreat, which isn't covered here.)

13:58

A Staged Question

One question, from "anonymous," asks Audrey to rank the five things she loves most about Matthew, with as much detail as possible. Audrey is puzzled that she hadn't seen it in the thread. Matthew then admits he wrote it because he wanted to hear that she loves him. She offers to name one thing, he asks again for "as much detail as possible," and the segment ends there without an answer.

14:47

Feeling Like a Late Bloomer

"Cupcake Queen" asks about a friend in her 20s who hasn't had her first kiss and feels "pathetic" about it. The friend has always wanted love and knows what kind of man she wants, but hasn't had luck with dating, likely because of a very sheltered upbringing. How can she stop feeling behind and be less afraid to put herself out there?

Audrey starts with grace and self-compassion. A sheltered life and limited exposure to these experiences aren't the friend's fault, and those circumstances explain why she hasn't been kissed by her mid-20s.

Her second point is about privacy. "You're not walking around branded never been kissed." People only know if she tells them. Audrey argues that people are no more entitled to know your "sexual non-history" than your sexual history. She extends this to medication, past experiences, and things you haven't done. All of it is as personal as you want it to be. She adds that the fact stops being true the moment the first kiss happens, and that it's only as big a deal as the friend makes it in her own head. Her suggestion is to make peace with it internally, to see it as "so far in my life I've not had this experience" while being excited to kiss someone and be intimate, and then to go make those things happen on her own terms and at a pace she's comfortable with.

17:09

What Keeps Their Marriage Working

Marlene Boise asks what the couple consistently does to make their marriage last, and what each has chosen to accept about the other instead of trying to change.

Matthew answers the first part. When one of them says a need isn't being met or something is affecting them, they don't "skate past it." He compares it to an alarm they don't snooze. His example: Audrey recently said that although they spend plenty of time together, she was craving real dates and nights out. He took it seriously. He notes that when someone says something out loud, it usually isn't the first time they've thought it, so saying it means "the alarm just got a little louder." He searched for French things to do in Los Angeles, because Audrey is French and connecting with her culture matters to her. He found a Bastille Day celebration downtown, and they went and had crepes. He says Audrey does the same for him: if he raises something, he can "set my watch" to her acting on it within days or a week. Audrey agrees.

For the second part, Audrey says that because of things Matthew has been through, he likes to hold on tightly and control situations. He double-checks whether she has booked or done things, or steps in to organize something she was handling. She accepts this rather than fighting it because she knows it makes him feel safe.

20:23

Finding Eligible Singles and Shaking Off the Rust

The last question, from Abar, asks where to find eligible singles who actually want to date, and how to get back into it after being single for a long time.

On the first part, Audrey says there's no specific place where eligible people gather, though there are many ways to meet more of them. She points to the free Dating With Results training, which she says over a million people have watched.

On the second part, she assumes the viewer wants practical steps, like whether to download an app or start talking to people. She suggests a different, "oblique" approach instead of going straight at the goal. She sets up a hypothetical. First she says "if Matthew died," then changes it to Matthew leaving her for another woman. In that situation, she says, she would start "planting seeds and watering the garden" of her social life and her life overall. That means making herself more eligible: feeling confident and good in her body, and feeling calm and at peace. It also means looking at her friendships. As a newly single person she would want single friends, so she would actively build friendships with people in the same stage of life, single and looking for love in their 30s or 40s. Her view is that the bigger you make your life, the more likely you are to eventually meet someone great.

For anyone who wants to get back out there after a long time alone, she suggests asking whether your life is set up for meeting someone. Do you have plenty of friendships? Do you like where you live and how you look? Do you feel confident enough to go on dates and show up as yourself? She thinks these need attention before a push to meet as many people as possible. Otherwise, when someone ghosts you or lets you down, it hits much harder because "we don't have all the other pillars in our lives to rely on."

The video ends with Matthew joking about how quickly she would be "planting seeds" around town, Audrey pointing out that in this scenario he left her, and Matthew asking viewers to comment if they want more episodes with her.