{"id":3889,"date":"2026-03-11T17:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/ari-lennox-reflects-on-past-relationships-and-dating-toxic-men\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:58:21","slug":"ari-lennox-reflects-on-past-relationships-and-dating-toxic-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/ari-lennox-reflects-on-past-relationships-and-dating-toxic-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Ari Lennox Reflects On Past Relationships And Dating Toxic Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ari Lennox recently had a candid conversation with the <em>Effective Immediately<\/em> podcast about her dating history. According to the \u201cShea Butter Baby\u201d singer, she spent too much of her early years giving toxic men attention. While Ari acknowledged that she still struggles with being attracted to \u201ctoxic energy,\u201d she\u2019s much more cognizant than in years past. She also expressed regret for not paying the \u201csweet energies\u201d the attention they deserved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I have a thing for toxic energy,\u201d Ari says. \u201cBecause when I look back on all of these energies, it\u2019s a shame I gave them so much time, and there were sweet energies that I didn\u2019t. Now, I see those sweet energies getting married and starting families, [and] I\u2019m just like, \u2018dang that could\u2019ve been me,\u2019 if I had recognized the security in those individuals at the time.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ari Lennox says she regrets giving toxic men attention and not the sweet ones, now that she\u2019s older and not married.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a shame I gave the toxic ones so much energy instead of the sweet ones. I see the sweet ones getting married and starting families I\u2019m like, that could\u2019ve\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p7tL3G8hvY\">pic.twitter.com\/p7tL3G8hvY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 stan<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1f3a5.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udfa5\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"> (@wyd_stan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wyd_stan\/status\/2031455967234175112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ari Lennox recently had a candid conversation with the Effective Immediately podcast about her dating history. According to the \u201cShea&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":3943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}