Why We Love The Drama (Until It's Ours) 🫣

E38 - Why We Love The Drama (Until It's Ours) 🫣

Published: February 18, 2026

Duration: 52:47

Let’s be honest. We all love a little drama… as long as it’s not happening to us. 😜

From celebrity family feuds to wedding-day chaos to messy public statements, we can’t look away. But the second that kind of public-facing conflict hits our own nervous system? We’re either shutting down, spiraling, or plotting our escape into permanent invisibility.

In this episode of But For Real, therapists Val and Emerson unpack the psychology of why we love drama and gossip— at least, of course, until it’s about us. We’re talking attachment wounds, tribalism...

Why We Love The Drama (Until It's Ours) 🫣 - But For Real