If love were an ice cream flavour, it wouldn't be just "cotton candy" or "cookies n' cream". There's some "rocky road" ice cream on the winding path of love and relationships.

What can you do when the road gets rocky, and conflict is inevitable?

• Do you take the ostrich approach and stick your head in the ground?
• Do you get big, or do you get small?
• Do you schedule time for difficult conversations? Is that even possible?!

Tim and Bella answer these questions and more as they chat about how to fight well while dating.

In this episode, Tim and Bella look at their own relationship as a case study, asking the question, "What's been working?" Together, they unpack the steps they've taken that have contributed to flourishing in thier relationship. Steps that, if followed, do not promise success, but certainly give you a nudge along the way!

If you've ever wanted clarity without pretending life is simple, press play.

When "Love Island" gets hit with a hurricane, it's your friends who will come to your rescue.

In this episode, Bella and Tim discuss how to make, maintain, and be a good friend. The stakes are never higher than when it comes to keeping your friendships close when love makes you blind to everyone but your sweetheart.

Tim and Bella unpack this, and other high-stakes elements of dating and friendship, like what to do if your partner has too many friends, or too few?

Join Tim and Bella as they continue to unpack the cultural dumpster fire of dating norms, addressing FIVE MORE myths and mistakes common in dating.

This week, they tackle the "touchy" subject of dating boundaries and get into the weeds of tough conversations and why they go wrong.

Tim and Bella unpack the cultural dumpster fire of dating norms, addressing the first FIVE myths and mistakes common in dating.

Does dating sometimes feel like a job interview?

Or does your dating ever fizzle into just "fun hangouts"?

Do you sometimes want to hide your dating life from your nosey family?

These are a few of the questions Tim and Bella unpack on this week's episode. Join them as they discuss what it looks like to seriously have fun while dating with intention.

Dating culture tells us to keep looking outward. Episode one of the UNPOPULAR's Relationship Series invites you to look inward instead. Tim and Bella discuss the kind of honest self-examination and action steps that prepare you for relationships rooted in depth and integrity.

When you do an audit of yourself, what do you find?

First dates come with a lot of unspoken rules—and plenty of confusion.
In episode two of UNPOPULAR, Tim and Bella dive into the dating pool to talk about how to prepare for a first date, from mindset and expectations to taboo topics and age-old questions like who opens the door and who picks up the check.

Some of these conversations may feel old-fashioned—or unpopular—but they're worth having.